"I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how."

--

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Samantha Hunt

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.”
“I am a loyal American, and I love my country.”

Source : Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.
“I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.”
“It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.”
“We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.”
“War is a defeat for humanity.”
“There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.”
“I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better.”

You may also like:

Christine Schutt
Novelist
Kamila Shamsie
Novelist
Kathleen Winter
Short story writer
Kelly Link
Editor
Lucy Corin
Novelist
Marilynne Robinson
Novelist
Michelle Tea
Author
Rikki Ducornet
Writer
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Writer