The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. |
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. |
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. |
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. |
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. |
The Waves. |
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it |
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it |
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high. |
When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms. |
would give [Welty] the distance from which to assess a sheltered past and the courage to move beyond the self-consciously clever or openly derivative poems and stories of her youth. |
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. |
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. |
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. |
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. |