I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me. — Kevin Brockmeier Astrology Copy Share Image
“Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. —Italo Calvino” — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been… — Kevin Brockmeier Story Copy Share Image
Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum. — Kevin Brockmeier Anxiety Copy Share Image
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years. — Kevin Brockmeier Book Copy Share Image
There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world. — Kevin Brockmeier Alive Copy Share Image
I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry. — Kevin Brockmeier Boys Copy Share Image
The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us. — Kevin Brockmeier Life Copy Share Image
It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed… — Kevin Brockmeier Blessing Copy Share Image
People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Heart Copy Share Image
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent.… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would… — Kevin Brockmeier Change Copy Share Image
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in… — Kevin Brockmeier Age Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, the light seemed to arrive from a distinct direction, like the sun slanting through a gap in a curtain, but often… — Kevin Brockmeier Artist Copy Share Image
“Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had… — Kevin Brockmeier Change Copy Share Image
“But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too… — Kevin Brockmeier Hope Copy Share Image
“They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you… — Kevin Brockmeier Animals Copy Share Image
I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely… — Kevin Brockmeier Effort Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I remember the way I used to be," she said as we sat across the table from each other, "and I'm… — Kevin Brockmeier Respect Copy Share Image
“The street lamps and illuminated signs were all extinguished, and on impulse everybody looked into the sky. The frogs and crickets fell… — Kevin Brockmeier Darkness Copy Share Image
“The incident made her remember the story she had heard about the girl who was raised in a room with no horizontal… — Kevin Brockmeier First birthday Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost. Cigarettes. Chewing gum. Strong… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“My son was something of a disciple of flying things. On his bedroom wall were posters of fighter planes and wild birds.… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished. — Kevin Brockmeier Book Copy Share Image
The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea. — Kevin Brockmeier Book Copy Share Image
She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world. — Kevin Brockmeier Heart Copy Share Image
I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second. — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew… — Kevin Brockmeier Cry Copy Share Image
If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with… — Kevin Brockmeier Book Copy Share Image
“A consensus slowly gathered among us. We had given up something important, we believed: the fire, the vigor, that came with a… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the… — Kevin Brockmeier Character Copy Share Image
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to… — Kevin Brockmeier Books Copy Share Image
