If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And… — Kyle Minor Copy Share
“Your shoes, mother,” he said. He had never called her mother, not in his whole life.” — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
“There is probably something weird about you, about what you want to do, about how you want to do it. You’re probably not pulling it off yet. But the one piece of advice you should immediately ignore is the suggestion that you shear off the rough edges, regularize, de-complicate, become like whatever the advisor thinks everybody ought to be. Don’t… — Kyle Minor Copy Share
Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through - every book the writer published, in chronological order, to see how the writer changed over time, and to see how the writer's idea of his or her project changed over time, and to see all the writer tried… — Kyle Minor Copy Share
“WE BEGIN WITH THE TROUBLE, but where does the trouble begin? My uncle takes a pistol and blows his brains out.” — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such thing as "getting away with" anything. There’s no one to tell you what you can or can’t do. You’re only limited by the fences you allow yourself to build around yourself, for whatever reason, including fidelity to some… — Kyle Minor Copy Share
If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's… — Kyle Minor Copy Share
You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small. — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry. — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
