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Alice Walker: "Anda mengatakan, bukan, saya berkata kepada Manuelito,...

"Anda mengatakan, bukan, saya berkata kepada Manuelito, bahwa cerita memiliki lebih banyak ruang di dalamnya daripada ide? [...] Dia tertawa. Itu benar, Señor. Seolah-olah ide terbuat dari balok. Kaku dan keras Dan cerita terbuat dari kain kasa yang elastis. Anda hampir dapat melihatnya, jadi apa yang ada di luar adalah menggiurkan. Anda tidak bisa berhasil; dan karena imajinasi selalu bergerak maju, Anda sendiri senantiasa meregang. Cerita adalah cara roh dilakukan."

--- Alice Walker

Versi Bahasa Inggris

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.