“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingMindHeartDoeSometimesRunningGrowsHoursForgetHappenedQuietAbsenceIntimacyMake SenseDawnInstantContinentsPausesIntegratingSymmetry Book:A Stone Boat: A Novel Source: A Stone Boat: A Novel
“I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksWarReasonWantedOrderHappenedSubjectsMy WayMake SenseWar Of The WorldsHistorianWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Nicholson Baker
“If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.” IfsHappensStrongResultsHappenedEventsDramaMusic IsStructureCome UpThings HappenMake SenseStrings Author:Missy Mazzoli