57 quotes found
Writer · American · 1928
American writer (born 1928)
“The engineering is secondary to the vision.”
“Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.”
“Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.”
“Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by. ”
“After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.”
“If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.”
“Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.”
“Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?”
“The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren'...”
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under ...”
“A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powd...”
“The novella will be called, I think, The Messiah of Stockholm. It takes place in Stockholm. Id better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.”
“Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!”
“In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.”
“An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educa...”
“To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ord...”
“I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One shoul...”
“Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.”
“In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, ps...”
“It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like...”
“When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gra...”
“What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.”
