The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one's parents. Death, about which so much mystery is made,is… — William Maxwell Copy Share
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about. — William Maxwell Copy Share
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side… — William Maxwell Copy Share
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. — William Maxwell Copy Share
I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to… — William Maxwell Copy Share
“Whether they are part of a home or home is a part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer. Having… — William Maxwell Copy Share
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep. — William Maxwell Copy Share
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. — William Maxwell Copy Share
The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet — William Maxwell Copy Share
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life… — William Maxwell Copy Share
“Without the heavy set aristocratic man snoring away on his side of the bed, without the fresh-eyed child whose hair ribbon needs retying; without… — William Maxwell Copy Share
“For most people, having company for more than three of four days is a serious mistake, the equivalent to sawing a large hole in… — William Maxwell Copy Share
“But he was careful. He didn’t make a simple remark without rehearsing it beforehand. And he continually removed the expression from his face lest… — William Maxwell Copy Share
