“It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.”
“The world is made by the people who show up for the job.”
“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
“It’s my job.”“Then thanks for showing up at work today.”
“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”
“Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.”