“She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.”
― Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life
― Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life
“Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself and others.”
― A Story Teller's Story
― A Story Teller's Story
“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories
― Death in the Woods and Other Stories
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four twentieth-century writers whose work is most responsible for it are probably Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and the poet Dylan Thomas.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.”
― A Story Teller's Story
― A Story Teller's Story
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