Rachael

“For the novelists in your life I have heard it said that it is better if you pretend they do something else and that it is always attended to, and doesn’t need your attention in the slightest. And then when asked for support, muster an enormous enthusiasm.”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“If I seem cagey, it is because I am not a liar and hate being considered one, due to an accident of craft. But also, if I tell you the idea, and the description disappoints you, the novel can be lost.”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.”
― Nicholson Baker, La mezzanine

“A GOOD PLACE TO begin a garden is to undo whatever appear to be the clear mistakes of previous owners.”
― Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel