I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter,… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness -… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
