The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified. I suppose you could cal… - Helen Humphreys
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified. I suppose you could cal…
- Helen Humphreys
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I… - Helen Humphreys
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I…
It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having. - Helen Humphreys
It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.
I like being mistaken for someone useful. - Helen Humphreys
I like being mistaken for someone useful.
This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once t… - Helen Humphreys
This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once t…
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down … - Helen Humphreys
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down …
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. - Helen Humphreys
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.
In some ways I spend longer at non-fiction because there are a lot of different threads to bring together. But non-fiction is more reflective than im… - Helen Humphreys
In some ways I spend longer at non-fiction because there are a lot of different threads to bring together. But non-fiction is more reflective than im…
What I like about mixing fiction and non-fiction is being able to fully explore an idea without being bound by genre. If you scratch under any surfac… - Helen Humphreys
What I like about mixing fiction and non-fiction is being able to fully explore an idea without being bound by genre. If you scratch under any surfac…
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