I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.
Garth GreenwellI'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
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 guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.
Garth Greenwell