WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Robinson, Roxana – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Robinson, Roxana -- “The Writer’s Life,” Authors Guild Bulletin (Winter 2015) https://wist.info/robinson-roxana/54773/ https://wist.info/robinson-roxana/54773/#respond Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:58:38 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=54773 The idea of compassion has become unfashionable. It’s gotten confused with sentimentality, though you English majors know the difference: sentimentality is emotion without responsibility; compassion is the recognition of shared humanity. Chalk and cheese. Sentimentality is superficial, easy listening that does nothing to expand our understanding. Compassion is quite different. Risky and exigent, it puts you inside someone else. This is one of literature’s greatest strengths


Roxana Robinson (b. 1946) American novelist and biographer
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