Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
“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
