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susanstinsonThe bulletin board over my desk fell down.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
The novelist doesn't write to express himself, he doesn't write simply to render a vision he believes true, rather he renders his vision so that it can be transferred, as nearly whole as possible, to his reader. You can safely ignore the reader's taste, but you can't ignore his nature, you can't ignore his limited patience... I have to make the reader feel, in his bones if nowhere else, that something is going on here that counts.
Flannery O'Connor
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
The novelist doesn't write to express himself, he doesn't write simply to render a vision he believes true, rather he renders his vision so that it can be transferred, as nearly whole as possible, to his reader. You can safely ignore the reader's taste, but you can't ignore his nature, you can't ignore his limited patience... I have to make the reader feel, in his bones if nowhere else, that something is going on here that counts.
Flannery O'Connor