For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
Garth GreenwellI take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.
Garth GreenwellI think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.
Garth GreenwellI'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
Garth Greenwell