Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the grow… - Doris Grumbach
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the grow…
- Doris Grumbach
My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring. - Doris Grumbach
My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.
Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in… - Doris Grumbach
Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in…
What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a cultu… - Doris Grumbach
What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a cultu…
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a wonderful s… - Doris Grumbach
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a wonderful s…
Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed. - Doris Grumbach
Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
Praise requires constant renewal and expansion. - Doris Grumbach
Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents,… - Doris Grumbach
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents,…
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purp… - Doris Grumbach
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purp…
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