The joy in reaching to the truth in writing, is having the faith to trust that it can be found, provided one looks to pulse of blood running through the veins of thought, and not to the meaning of it.​​
A boy and his mother were walking, not speaking, the low moving sky darkening, and it darkened more yet, such that it roofed the dirt and gravel road and the travelers upon the road in a manner that made this aged and distant Arcadian world appear constrictive, the travelers entrapped, a moment suggestive of past worlds—of those that had come before them; lives harrowed in the dark vacancies of this place.
Author of the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Torrents of Our Time, and the novels, The Fiddler in the Night, and LOVE, GUNS & GOD in America, Christian, with his latest book, What I Know About the Human Race, looks at love, life, hope, and art through various forms of writing: fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, and a one act play.
"Words used to be art. In their creation. In the act. And thus the words were art in their very being. Forget the reader. Just don't forget the impetus. Christian Fennell never did. One of the rare few."
- The Prague Revue
A violent fucking poet."-Josip Novakovich
on writing
If Dennis Hopper was convinced - which he was, that cats once ruled Egypt, I don't see why the spirit of James Joyce can't hear us, and even possibly care. ​​​
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.” – Albert Camus. And from this we begin to write.
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“Writing is always rooted in something beyond language, but develops like a seed, not like a line, it manifests an essence and holds the threat of a secret, it is an anti-communication, it is intimidating.” - Roland Barthes
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"The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about." - Bob Dylan
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“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?” - James Joyce
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"If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success." - Malcolm X
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“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.” - Leo Tolstoy
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"When ‘great literature’ is replaced by ‘excellent fiction’, that’s the real betrayal of higher education." - Elif Batuman
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“Life is too short to read a bad book.” - James Joyce
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.” - William Faulkner
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“The days are stacked against what we think we are." Jim Harrison. And so, the less we think we know, the better situated we for writing fiction.
"The word is a flame burning in a dark glass." Sheila Watson
"Write dangerously. - James Joyce
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"Imagination is everything.' - Albert Einstein
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"Be writing." - William Faulkner
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” - Anais Nin
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sam·iz·dat
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"The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art, and cinema." - Werner Herzog
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And Werner, this too: More Art = A Greater Tolerance.​​
en·light·en·ment
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"Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too." - Jim Harrison ​