Virginia Woolf on Fiction

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

I love this quote by Virginia Woolf. Fiction is indeed like a spiders web and the anchoring to reality has degrees of attachment. Woolf has a range of attachment in her fictional works. The most loosely connected would have to be Orlando where the main character changes sex in the course of the story. It is in fact impossible to write fiction that is totally unattached to life, as we would have no way of appreciating it. The analogy to me is like a sail that has a great degree of movement but always has strong attachment points to stop it blowing away.

DK

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Harness your Dreams

"In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness."
Ann Faraday

I find that in reading I fuel my dreams and expand my horizons. One is exposed to new potentialities.

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Eternal Life for Book Readers

That heading caught your eyes didn't it. It is somewhat tongue in cheek, but I will need eternal life to read all the books in all the languages that I want to. Life is too short for the avid reader!! I'm sure I would be more use spending eternity reading, than singing with the choir eternal (apologies to Monty Python!!) DK