There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the...
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Helen Humphreys
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves,...
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Margaret Atwood
It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too...
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Margaret Atwood
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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Dorothy Allison
More Quotes By Theodore Sturgeon
Why do you talk all the time?” I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully.“ I think it’s ’cause I don’t know any big words, like you and Mummy, ” she said, just in...
I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. “Put them pants on, ” I said, “and be a man.” She did, but she cried quietly until I shook her and said gently, “Stop it now. I...
The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted.. used to.. whatever I saw that was beautiful. It had to be beautiful to me, through and through, before I would paint it. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And I...
Just think about it, " he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."" Shut up shut up... Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.
