Allegra Goodman Quotes

• Conoce tu tradición literaria, saboréala, roba de ella, pero cuando te sientes a escribir, olvídate de rendir culto a la grandeza y de fetichizar las obras maestras.

  Allegra Goodman

  Writing, Greatness, Forget

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• Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head.

  Allegra Goodman

  Libro, Quererte, Escribir

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• I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become jewels in poetry, while they are often tools in other genres.

  Allegra Goodman

  Thinking, Attention, Imagery

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism, I found my own themes independent of the New York experience and the immigrant experience.

  Allegra Goodman

  Religious, Writing, Independent

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

  Allegra Goodman

  Badass, Hate, Men

  Allegra Goodman (2010). “Intuition”, p.62, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sospecho que la popularidad de los jóvenes adultos y las novelas distópicas tiene algo que ver con el deseo de alegorías y cuentos morales a la antigua usanza. De hecho, en la ficción distópica y postapocalíptica se puede encontrar el marco religioso. Aquí, y en los videojuegos, se encuentran códigos estrictos de autoridad, las "reglas del juego", la búsqueda a vida o muerte y la lucha que la gente ansía.

  Allegra Goodman

  Religious, Struggle, People

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I do think some games are works of art, although their medium is visual rather than verbal. Both games and novels allow the reader/player to become a protagonist in the theater of the imagination. Both build worlds. In my opinion, the big difference between game and novel is in narrative structure. Communal role-playing games are open-plan without an end. A novel - at least the kind I write - has a closed structure with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I like that closed structure, and I feel I can say more with it.

  Allegra Goodman

  Art, Writing, Player

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religious point of view - because belief does not anger or embarrass me.

  Allegra Goodman

  Religious, Writing, People

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• The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.

  Allegra Goodman

  Correr, Niños, Pensar

  Allegra Goodman (2011). “The Cookbook Collector”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Here's my theory: I think both fiction and role-playing games involve a narrative journey. When that journey never ends, it feeds an addictive cycle. When that journey has an end, it brings us back to ourselves and to our own lives. This return allows us to reflect. Perhaps this is why I prefer a closed structure for books and games.

  Allegra Goodman

  Libro, Viaje, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a game can teach. Whatever the genre, I think a successful narrative allows us to participate, to try on new roles and points of view. At their best, novels and games serve as vehicles for discovery.

  Allegra Goodman

  Successful, Thinking, Trying

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