“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… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
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… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
“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… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
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… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
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
Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
“he takes pleasure in the sorting, and even more, perhaps, in the new knowledge that he is a person who can sort.” — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
