Ethan Hawke
"The great joy of acting is the collaboration. I get so much of that, I feel really drawn to the isolation and solitude of writing. It's a real joy for me."
Ann Packer
"My take is more that everybody has very interesting experiences just from being human and having survived childhood. There is a story in every apparently mundane life."
Richard Russo on The Whore’s Child
"I think the Pulitzer often goes to writers who are writing about America in some larger way than in writing about particular Americans. And Empire Falls was some sort of snapshot of some part of America."
The FBI Chaplain Stops By: A Poem
With folded hands but answerless.
Mark Costello
"Anything that stops and tries to make us feel human as opposed to making us feel like consumers or productive units, I think that's important."
Arthur Phillips
"Writing is a pleasure. Whatever the frustrations are, they are nothing compared to having to go to a real job. So, I can't ever say writing is hard. I'd be ashamed of saying that."
Nome Sane
Uncle Shelby, Sippy Salvatore, Silent Edgar, Ramos the Bull God, Alejandro the Hammer, Peter the Wolf, The Ghost of Thom Jones, names by which my ilk are known or have been known, all. Name by which I go when I go at night from this place in the hills with my hollow prayer book in …
Giuseppe the Architect
The spark is a good dog. Giuseppe sucks! It is well trained. It heels. Architects call electricians sparkies, They do what Giuseppe tells them! The wall cannot be broken by a fist. Giuseppe sucks! It is a solid thing. It contains. Architects call bricklayers brickies. They do what Giuseppe tells them! The shower has good …
Brad Watson
"I knew how those people were flawed and yet very sweet and kind and generous at the same time. If I have a vision of humanity, it's that. Rarely do you see what you perceive to be pure evil."
Brady Udall
"I think that's what a lot of people object to in writing programs—a lot of private school kids being shuffled into a graduate program who have never seen anything or done anything."