“The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce an inferiority… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“...my thoughts don't really bump along this way, but they do bump somehow, and it's more honest--more pedagogically useful, more truthful--to arrange them in… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
