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 possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing.
What is remembered is what becomes reality. - Patricia Hampl
What is remembered is what becomes reality.
- Patricia Hampl
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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…
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.
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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