“As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.” KnowsWorldBookKidsKnow HowObjectsFitStoresNewspapersComicDepartmentUnusualBookstoresDepartment Stores Author:Ben Katchor
“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldLongUseLyingPoetryParentKnow HowLove YouObjectsPoetAdultsGuiltyInstantPoeticSpheresConcreteTime Of NeedStepchildStepchildrenNew Family Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.” KnowsWellsI CanKnow HowObjectsFacultyModeratesOnly LoveHow To Love Author:Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
“I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object.” PeopleKnowsWantFacesKnow HowObjectsDatingSerials Author:Chris Hardwick
“For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.” KnowsWayBookDifferentRunningTogetherBitsLinesCommonKnow HowObjectsMetaphorDialogueNarrativeDescriptionIsolatedThreadConstructsSequenceScrapCollages Author:Hilary Mantel