Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay for sex - and deepens over the course of the book to address larger questions of ownership and belonging.

Garth Greenwell's Popular Quotes

I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and…

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My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years a…

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Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as …

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Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

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I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

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I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than…

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There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and espec…

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I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

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I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exis…

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