Kirsty Gunn

(1960) Writer

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Kirsty Gunn is a writer.

Quick Facts About Kirsty Gunn

Born: January 1, 1960
Profession: Writer

About Kirsty Gunn

[Wikidata] writer... | [Wikipedia] Kirsty Gunn is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and professor of creative writing. She has won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award, the New Zealand Post Book Awards Book of the Year award, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Quotes by Kirsty Gunn

“A player whose technical skill is not of the first rank will make gracenotes longer than they should be. As a result…

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“Hell, she knows why you chew your nails, why your eyes are blue one day, black the next. And all you want…

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Ur Eyes

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“She holds within her the memory of this journey, drawn out for her like a constellation in the darkness, each element of…

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Darkness

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“When the rain came it came first as the scent of rain, the grey air stained darker behind the hills. Then when…

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Rain

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“No one would ever find her here. Even from the high saddle there was no sign of the way she'd come, no…

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Journey

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“That minute, that tiny second when you hit the water flat on, you lose your breath. All the air flattens out of…

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“We can't change things, you and I. We sit up here all day, under a bad sun, but we can't stop the…

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Change things

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“Could have been, mind you. And that's one big mother of a conditional. Because who's to say she wanted me in the…

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Parenting

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“Only let the darkness inside her that she fears also be the darkness of infinite gentleness, the mouth for killing the same…

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Darkness

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