Priscilla Westover

“IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?”
― HIllerman, Tony

“Isn’t all artwork—or all decent art—a mirror? Might a great painting not even reformulate the question what is it about to what am I about? Isn’t theory also in some sense always autobiography?”
― María Gainza, El nervio óptico

“She is sensitive. She does not see the world as it is. She’s a bit up in the clouds. She cannot fit in.”
― Christa Wolf, Cassandra

“It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender’s war record so convincing and full when I had said so little – one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it – but since then I’ve come to learn for myself how little one needs, in the art of writing, to convey the lot, and how a lot of words, on the other hand, can convey so little.”
― Muriel Spark, Loitering With Intent