“WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was not taken into account was that for some of us truth can never be an absolute,… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why else would… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“metawriting can be viewed as "the act of doing something outside of the game in order to impact what is actually occurring in the… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Okay, let's say that a metamove or metagesture is when the author intentionally draws attention to a work's genre, its very existence as fiction… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
