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, poking you until you've changed into that very simple 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.
- Allan Gurganus
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.
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!
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page. - Allan Gurganus
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
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.
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. - Allan Gurganus
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.
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.
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…
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