11 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“No one ever does the last thing on their list.”
“Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.”
“I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.”
“When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.”
“You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.”
“With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.”
“When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing mat...”
“That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the creative life is somehow self-indulgent. Artists and writers have to unders...”
“It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that k...”
“The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.”
“It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whis...”
