The Sound of Pages: The Importance of Fiction

Friday, May 4, 2012

The Importance of Fiction

No book review today, as I'm currently in the middle of a series and a biography (I often have several books going at once), but I read this interview between a blogger I admire, Tim Challies, and Russell Moore on the value of reading fiction for Christians. Thought you might like to take a gander at it: Fiction and Literature: An Interview with Russell Moore.

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Best Book Quotes

"Often, it's messy, but that's okay. Abundance tends to look that way. Besides, I have discovered that messiness can be close to godliness too. Maybe even closer." ~Carolyn Weber, Surprised by Oxford
"You can't explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn't even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work. I suppose grace was pouring over Glendon, who had sought it so hard, and some spilled down on me." ~So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, spoken by Albus Dumbledore
"Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel." — Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
"Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will." ~Leif Enger, Peace Like a River, spoken by Ruben Land
"When a young man, be he who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word, only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him. Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once." - Sense and Sensibility, Ch. 30