“True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world that can only be said in a story.”
Quotes by John Freeman
“I had never heard of the little Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. And yet, that's where it all began. With an ordinary incident, one that happens frequently, but so frequently that it finally started something unstoppable.”
“About the question of whether it is a novel, he said that the project itself seemed like an interesting challenge: how to narrate factually and yet get “the lift of fiction.” After he said this, I thought about the word “lift,” since it seemed he was pointing out something that fiction might give and that nonfiction might not give.”
John FreemanJohn Freeman was a notable English poet, critic, and editor, recognized for his contributions to early 20th-century literature. Born in 1880, Freeman's literary career began in earnest with the public...