What Counts and What Doesn’t

In certi momenti, non sono le parole scritte che contano. Una voce, una carezza, un gesto di tenerezza, saranno sempre più forti e risolutivi di un miliardo di parole scritte dal più grande poeta di tutti i secoli. Noi viviamo di queste voci, di queste carezze, di queste tenerezze, non di libri. Io che scrivo lo so.

–Giorgio Scerbanenco

“In certain moments, it’s not written words that count. One voice, one caress, one gesture of tenderness will always be stronger and more decisive than a billion words written by the greatest poet of all time. We live by these voices, by these caresses, by these tendernesses, not by books. I, a writer, know this.”

a thin middle-aged man with a beaky nose typing on a portable typewriter
GIORGIO SCERBANENCO

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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