A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the role of writers in revealing the hidden truths and effects of crime on individuals and society.
Natsuo Kirino's quote suggests that crime disrupts the fabric of reality, creating fissures that can be investigated and explored through literature. As writers delve into these 'cracks,' they uncover the complex impact of crime on human behavior and societal norms, offering readers insights into both the darkness of humanity and the resilience of the human spirit.
In practice
This quote can inspire a discussion on the role of crime in literature during a book club meeting.
For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will never stand up against a girl who is clearly physically attractive.
It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
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