“The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.” Quote by Jess Row
“It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.” CultureSteps Author:Jess Row
“Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.” Hong Kong Author:Jess Row
“Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.” WantShowsInterestNovelArguingConvinceThesis Author:Sergio Chejfec
“The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.” PersonsPlayWalksImaginePossibilityHappeningsConsequenceDetailsTheatreTensionDefiniteVague Author:Sergio Chejfec
“At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.” BookIdeasRealRealityReadingFeltObjectsMaterialsTensionIntangible Author:Sergio Chejfec
“I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.” PeopleWritingNovelProgramInstructionNovel Writing Author:Jess Row
“I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.” LongStoriesSituationLong TimeExpectationsOvercomingShort Story Author:Jess Row
“Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.” DifferentWishRaceDetermineGenderSurgeryDifferent Races Author:Jess Row
“A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.” KnowsWantMayStillsIdeasMomentsReadingNextUnderstandingLevelsReaderUltimateInfiniteDepthNo IdeaThat MomentDensityFluctuation Author:Sergio Chejfec
“Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.” PeopleKnowsWantBookReadingGoalRealizingNovelTypeReaderPicksResponseConfusionDislikeBiographiesEssaysVaryComprehension Author:Sergio Chejfec