David Wroblewski Quotes

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• You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.
• I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time.…
• Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in…
• It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an…
• Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things…
• That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen…
• She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable…
• When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before…
• Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through…
• No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the…
• That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was…
• ...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...
• I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development.…
• It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost -…
• My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date back to ancient…

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