If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that sticks with me not from any English class but from some awfully recondite driver's ed. seminars I had… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Because some days the world holds true at the drop of a hat, don't you find? Things favor themselves: whatever you reach for -… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Most days what I felt was this: the minute you put a first name and a last name together, you've got a pair of… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that sticks with… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
