Jim Krotzman

“As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; it’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write,a though, I never reach a conclusion. And no matter how much I rewrite, I never reach the destination. Even after decades of writing, the same still holds true. All I do is present a few hypotheses or paraphrase the issue. Or find an analogy between the structure of the problem and something else.” (118)”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“In hyperbolic tones he listed the catastrophes that in his view were approaching: one, the decline of the revolutionary subject par excellence, the working class; two, the definitive dispersion of the political patrimony of socialists and Communists, who were already perverted by their daily quarrel over which was playing the role of capital’s crutch; three, the end of every hypothesis of change, what was there was there and we would have to adapt to it.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday