Gerald Murnane Quotes
I Cannot Recall Having Believed, Even As A Child, That The Purpose Of Reading Fiction Was To Learn About The Place Commonly Called The Real World. I Seem To Have Sensed From The First That To Read Fiction Was To Make Available For Myself A New Kind Of Space. In That Space, A Version Of Myself Was Free To Move Among Places And Personages The Distinguishing Features Of Which Were The Feelings They Caused To Arise In Me Rather Than Their Seeming Appearance, Much Less Their Possible Resemblance To Places Or Persons In The World Where I Sat Reading.
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