Martina

“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.”
― Louise Erdrich

“Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you're seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. I mean, to be seventy-eight years old and still looking, looking - this amazes me.”
― Louise Glück

“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.”
― Richard Price

“I think of the way a writer opens a novel, as akin to how clinical psychology begins, with a kind of contract that the reader - God, I mean the patient - enters into with the psychotherapist.”
― Olga Tokarczuk