It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
Flannery O'ConnorThe type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.
Flannery O'ConnorI am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.
Flannery O'Connor