Doris Grumbach Quotes
- The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves…
- My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.
- Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the…
- Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full…
- We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others…
- These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a…
- Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I…