Rebecca McClanahan

Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that…

— Rebecca McClanahan

“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”

— Rebecca McClanahan

“Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful…

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you…

— Rebecca McClanahan

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

— Rebecca McClanahan

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

— Rebecca McClanahan

“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and…

— Rebecca McClanahan