40 quotes found
“Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child”
“A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.”
“The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn l...”
“Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it”
“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...”
“I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power selle...”
“What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political...”
“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.”
“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”
“Love and honesty don’t mix.”
“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”
“Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?”
“I transform fiction into memory.”
“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, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.”
“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”
“Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.”
“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The wor...”
