(13 quotes found)
“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.”
William Maxwell
“Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.”
“I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living”
“Your reader is at least as bright as you are”
“Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.”
“No directions came with this idea.”
“My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.”
“It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.”
“My interest in literature hasn't decreased. It just gets more passionate, actually.”
“The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.”
