Trent Cunningham

“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.”
― Richard L. McGuire, Passionate Attention: An Introduction to Literary Study

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper