Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
Reynolds PriceWhat I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
Reynolds PriceStrength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
Reynolds PriceMany Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
Reynolds PriceA need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
Reynolds Price