Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.… — padgett powell Copy Share Image
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
