6 Quotes & Sayings By Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell received his PhD from Oxford University in 2012, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of four novels, including "The Friends We Keep" (New York Times), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and "The Lesser Bohemians" (Cincinnati Magazine Best Book of 2017), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. He has published essays and articles in The New York Times, Granta, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Paris Review, and other publications.

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Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it. Garth Greenwell
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History is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. Garth Greenwell
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[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see. Garth Greenwell
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The whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from the inside. Garth Greenwell
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You can't speak to him, he said, if you speak to him, if you give any sign to him at all, he will come back; he has to stop existing for you. Garth Greenwell