Kelley Harkins

“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

“A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.”
― Stephen Wright

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried