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“My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.”
Source: Airships
Source: Airships
Source: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
“A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.”
“I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.”
“I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.”
“My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.”
“What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.”
Source: Airships
Source: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
Source: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
“If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.”
Source: Yonder Stands Your Orphan
“Literature is the history of the soul.”
Source: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
“You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.”
Source: Yonder Stands Your Orphan
“The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.”
Source: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
“Love and despair go hand in hand.”
Source: Yonder Stands Your Orphan
“My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.”