Rosellen Brown
Quotes
“I still write for the same reason I wrote when I was nine years old: to speak more perfectly than I really can, to a listener more perfect than any I know.”
Rosellen Brown
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the time.”
Martha Graham
“You can’t be a novelist if you can’t imagine things happening that have never happened; you need to be a really good liar. A novel is a monumental lie that has the ring of truth.”
Barbara Taylor Bradford
“I write to annoy God, to make Death laugh. I write because I can’t get it right. I write because I want every woman in the world to fall in love with me.”
Charles Simic
“No two persons ever read the same book.”
Edmund Wilson
“A novel captures the soul of people.”
Paul Theroux
“People ask me why I don’t write about nature or the suburbs. If a writer could write the truth about one Chicago street, that would be a good life’s work.”
Nelson Algren