Steve Chisnell

“A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.”
― Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture

“Evil?" Womble rarely used the word in his work. It was a storybook word. Neither right nor wrong. A word made up to fill a gap in how to talk about the world when it tilted on its side spilling out more blood and pain than people could stand.”
― Phillip Arrington, The Serpent's Sage

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Patrice Nganang, Mount Pleasant