"The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it."

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Source : "The Rumpus mini-interview project #102: Max Winter". Interview with Maria Anderson, therumpus.net. September 21, 2017.

Randall Jarrell

#Crafts Quotes #Narrative Quotes #Length Quotes

“I see myself as an entertainer.”
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
“All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.”
“In the old days, you could segment happily. You could put out one message to one segment of the audience, and one to another. That has now gone. You say something to one community and instantly, literally at a click, it's available to everybody. What it means is that if you're trying to craft a message, it's very difficult.”
“What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.”
“The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.”
“I always try to think in curves.”
“What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose.”

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