If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-pai… - Padgett Powell
There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-pai…
- Padgett Powell
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only … - Padgett Powell
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only …
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. - Padgett Powell
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.
Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting. - Padgett Powell
Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing … - Padgett Powell
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing …
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation. - Padgett Powell
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. - Padgett Powell
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? - Padgett Powell
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them … - Padgett Powell
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them …
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