Victor LaValle Quotes
- No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we…
- Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not…
- The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
- The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation,…
- Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
- A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you.
- Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
- Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.
- I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy.…
- William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is…
- Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about…
- The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.
- Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal…