Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.
What is remembered is what becomes reality. - Patricia Hampl
What is remembered is what becomes reality.
- Patricia Hampl
We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only … - Patricia Hampl
We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only …
Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency. - Patricia Hampl
Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.
The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the h… - Patricia Hampl
The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the h…
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them. - Patricia Hampl
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write … - Patricia Hampl
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write …
People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal. - Patricia Hampl
People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical. - Patricia Hampl
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. - Patricia Hampl
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
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