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| 3df2589 | The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater. | writer writing christian-writers novelist realistic-fiction writers-on-writing perspective perception perception-of-reality realism | Flannery O'Connor | |
| de5a5d9 | Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelist are probably never balanced for the writer until the Church becomes so much a part of his personality that he can forget about her--in the same sense that when he writes, he forgets about himself. | writing faith christian-writers writing-fiction fiction-writing | Flannery O'Connor |