Quotes by John Edgar Wideman

“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to ...”

“Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.”

“All Stories are True.”

“I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was spo...”

“My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of ...”

“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”

“Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.”