Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.
The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.