“..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.” IfsWorldFeelsNamesLanguageSecretSeriousSightIntentionInscrutable Book:The Hours: A Novel Source: The Hours: A Novel
“A writer should always feel like he's in over his head” FeelsShouldWriting Author:Michael Cunningham
“I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the way. It hovers over me at odd moments. And then it's gone. I feel like I'm always on the brink of something that never arrives. I want to either have it or be free of it.” WayWantFeelsMomentsDreamGoneWonderfulTerribleOdd Author:Michael Cunningham
“Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesDoeMomentsMightMovingReadingAnswersBrainSituationKnowingParticularWillingGhostSettingSettingsPerceiveSensationsFloatingObserversSkulls Author:Michael Cunningham
“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.” WorldWantFeelsBookThis WorldReturnBedTiredStunned Author:Michael Cunningham
“If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.” IfsWantFeelsBookMatterWhat You WantBetrayedUnfamiliar Author:Michael Cunningham
“I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.” FeelsRichLifestyle Author:Michael Cunningham
“I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.” WayNeedsFeelsYearsBookSeemsMightNovelOriginalsI've LearnedHeroicGesturesLicenseTranslationsTranslators Author:Michael Cunningham
