The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.