There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them. - Allan Gurganus
Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
- Allan Gurganus
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, pok… - Allan Gurganus
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, pok…
You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know. - Allan Gurganus
You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page. - Allan Gurganus
Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. - Allan Gurganus
Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. - Allan Gurganus
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. - Allan Gurganus
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.
I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there… - Allan Gurganus
I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there…
You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something! - Allan Gurganus
You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!
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