Glenn

“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-- with immense, even startling power. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine-- the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.”
― Raymond Carver

“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“They had nothing in common but the English language.”
― EM Forster, Howards End

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End