Carole Maso

After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -- The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first…

— Carole Maso

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its…

— Carole Maso

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

— Carole Maso

If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we…

— Carole Maso

Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...

— Carole Maso

“You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.”

— Carole Maso

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

— Carole Maso

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near…

— Carole Maso

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

— Carole Maso

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

— Carole Maso

“You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.”

— Carole Maso

“I believe in books.”

— Carole Maso

Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.

— Carole Maso

It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why…

— Carole Maso

“As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect.”

— Carole Maso

“One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not…

— Carole Maso