6 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.”
“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literatures...”
“While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?”
“Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of yeast; hiccup fetishists; the proper use of inverse, obverse, converse and reverse; ...”
“We are all in wires, eventually, reduced to what we said, or didn't say, and what we wrote or didn't write, who loved or didn't love, or loved and lost and never told it except for writing in or to...”
“Oh bell-dumb heart, it makes you a fool to think you were ever closer to opening up the world to art, to breaking it apart than those who came before. But knowing that can't make you read or brea...”