JOHN UPDIKE ON STORYTELLING January 30, 2009
Posted by thenaturalist in Rhythm/Rhythms, Storytelling, Time.add a comment
In “Why I Write” from Picked-Up Pieces, John Updike says, “Storytelling, for all its powers of depiction, shares with music the medium of time, and perhaps its genius, its most central transformation, has to do with time, with rhythm and echo and the sense of time not frozen as in a painting but channeled and harnessed as in a symphony….”
