your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
