Yvette Walker

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Yvette Walker

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Yvette Walker is an Australian writer. Her first novel Letters to the End of Love was published by University of Queensland Press in April 2013. Letters To The End of Love was shortlisted for the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards (Glenda Adams Award for New Writing). Yvette won a 2014 WA Premiers Book Award (Emerging WA Writer) for the novel. She is currently working on her second book. ...more

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Meet Me at the Intersection

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Letters to the End of Love

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“I have the ghost of you pressing against my ribs like deep water. It is only now, in this cardigan of a house that I begin to miss you, and to grieve.”
Yvette Walker, Letters to the End of Love

“I trace the map of other people's lives like an English cartographer, but I am not Virginia Woolf; no one in my fiction would buy flowers in that way.”
Yvette Walker, Letters to the End of Love

“The typewriter is neat and compact and sturdy and blue, just the right machine to pound out a missive of love. When you strike the keys it’s a sound that hasn’t been heard in the qorld world for thirty years (we are so far away from a time when typewriters won world wars). When you strike the keys they make a sound like a pistol shot, a sound so definite and sure you feel like a genius, or an orayor orator, or a beat poet. When you strike the keys you just want to keep on fucking writing. You have to wrestle with the thing, like I am doing now, steer it like an old manual car, keep the words together and right and on the page, but the blood and muscle of a typewriter, it is a beautiful thing.”
Yvette Walker, Letters to the End of Love

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“Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?”
Elizabeth Bishop

“Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.”
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“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

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