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I don’t like to listen to music while I’m working.

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

Stories Quotes

There’s a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it’s much more developed than in others. It’s a different balance which makes us all different.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

You light a match and the house burns down.

It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren’t certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking – when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.

People steal into one’s consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one’s vision of the past.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Stories Quotes

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

I have a painter’s memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

In my early twenties, that’s when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

When there’s a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, ‘This has always been a quiet neighborhood.’ That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn’t anyplace that’s a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog – you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.

I’ve always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I’ve seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they’ve stayed with me and comforted me.

Imagination has to do with one’s awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one’s own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

Stories Quotes

To be human is to be in a story.

Stories Quotes

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

I don’t know what makes a writer’s voice. It’s dozens of things. There are people who write who don’t have it. They’re tone-deaf, even though they’re very fluent. It’s an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that’s the minute you have to stop because from then on it’s wrong.

You’ll see some bad things, but if you didn’t see them, they’d still be happening.

Life is all getting used to what you’re not used to.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Reading Quotes

Freedom is a public library.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don’t know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

Suddenly drained of the nervous excitement which had made her forget momentarily her tiredness and the monochromatic dullness of this early morning, she buried her face in the edge of the bed. Otto, somewhat apathetically, began to stroke her bag beneath her nightgown. She was grateful that they had not fought—she didn't have the energy—but a sullen disappointment roiled about just behind her gratitude. Was Otto going to make love to her while the Negro in the street slept in his own vomit?

Desperate Characters Quotes

Imagination is conjunctive and unifying; the sour, habitual wars of the self are disjunctive and separating.When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book.

Desperate Characters Quotes Realism Quotes Translation Quotes Zola Quotes

Words are nets through which all truth escapes("News From The World")

Truth Quotes / Language Quotes Short Shorts Quotes Words Quotes

She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard," she said. "And the weight of what they carry tortures their feet.

The God of Nightmares Quotes

It was a dead hole, smelling of synthetic leather and disinfectant, both of which odors seemed to emanate from the torn scratched material of the seats that lined the three walls. It smelled of the tobacco ashes which had flooded the two standing metal ashtrays. On the chromium lip of one, a cigar butt gleamed wetly like a chewed piece of beef. There was the smell of peanut shells and of the waxy candy wrappers that littered the floor, the smell of old newspapers, dry, inky, smothering and faintly like a urinal, the smell of sweat from armpits and groins and backs and faces, pouring out and drying up in the lifeless air, the smell of clothes—cleaning fluids imbedded in fabric and blooming horribly in the warm sweetish air, picking at the nostrils like thorns—all the exudations of the human flesh, a bouquet of animal being, flowing out, drying up, but leaving a peculiar and ineradicable odor of despair in the room as though chemistry was transformed into spirit, an ascension of a kind,…Light issuing from spotlights in the ceiling was sour and blinding like a sick breath.There was in that room an underlying confusion in the function of the senses. Smell became color, color became smell. Mute started at mute so intently they might have been listening with their eyes, and hearing grew preternaturally acute, yet waited only for the familiar syllables of surnames. Taste died, mouth opened in the negative drowsiness of waiting.

Desperate Characters Quotes Hopeless Quotes Hospitals Quotes Illness Quotes

He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.

Smile Quotes / Desperate Characters Quotes

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

Family Quotes The Widow's Children Quotes

I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels. It doesn't have memory or an idea of the future. It lives in the present—the right now—and I try to remember it is only a part of myself, a small frightened thing I can pity. When I'm able to do that, something happens. The animal grows less afraid.

The Village by the Sea Quotes

‎How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

Desperate Characters Quotes

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

The Widow's Children Quotes

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

Good Quotes Novel Quotes Question Quotes

It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.

The Village by the Sea Quotes

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Pain Quotes Truth Quotes / Realism Quotes Slavery Quotes The Slave Dancer Quotes Truth telling Quotes

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Reading Quotes / Books Quotes Children Quotes

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.