"If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then itâ€™s really finished as a force for grappling with the world."

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Source : "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

J. M. Ledgard

#Class Quotes #Fiction Quotes #World Quotes

“How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.”
“It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.”
“Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.”
“The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.”
“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”
“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
“You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.”

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