13 quotes found
“Love and honesty dont mix.”
“I transform fiction into memory.”
“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”
“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”
“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”
“Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.”
“Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?”
“Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”
“Angst is not the human condition, its the purgatory between what we have and what we want but cant get.”
“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”
“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. Theyre gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The wors...”
“Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle well be.”
“The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the t...”
