When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why else would… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“metawriting can be viewed as "the act of doing something outside of the game in order to impact what is actually occurring in the… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
