“What, you egg?”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“You turn to me and ask, “Do you ever think about suicide?” I look away from you and close my eyes, eat the raspberries to confuse the blood in my mouth.”
― Mostly Void, Partially Stars
― Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that it's the closest thing to being God you're ever going to get. All the decisions are yours. You decide when the sun comes up. You decide who gets to fall in love and who gets hit by a car. You have to make all the trees and all the leaves and then sew the leaves onto the trees. You make the entire world.”
― The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
― The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
“The way the cemetery looks made of books / and the library is a graveyard.”
― Trances of the Blast
― Trances of the Blast
“a woman raised her hand and said that her minister had told the congregation that they should never read novels with omniscient narrators, because the writer was trying to imitate God. “Really?” I said. “No Tolstoy? No Dickens?” The woman shook her head. I have to say it thrilled me to think that narrative structure was dangerous enough to rate its own Sunday sermon.) ”
― The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
― The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
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