“Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble… — William Maxwell Class Copy Share Image
Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to. — William Maxwell Considering Copy Share Image
“It seemed like a mistake. And mistakes ought to be rectified, only this one couldn't be. Between the way things used to… — William Maxwell Failure Copy Share Image
“Mother, listen to me. Now's your chance, do you hear? I know that when I start to talk about what I really… — William Maxwell Bad temper Copy Share Image
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they… — William Maxwell Asks Copy Share Image
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when… — William Maxwell Breathtaking Copy Share Image
“People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they… — William Maxwell Life Copy Share Image
“It seemed like a mistake. And mistakes ought to be rectified, only this one couldn't be. Between the way things used to… — William Maxwell Failure Copy Share Image
“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory - meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that… — William Maxwell Memory Copy Share Image
“The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot… — William Maxwell Children Copy Share Image
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet… — William Maxwell Bed Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell Deprivation Copy Share Image
I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living — William Maxwell Life Copy Share Image
Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that,… — William Maxwell Afternoon Copy Share Image
“They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of… — William Maxwell Compassion Copy Share Image
My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding. — William Maxwell Authority Copy Share Image
“Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity,… — William maxwell Freedom Copy Share Image
In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw. — William Maxwell Breaths Copy Share Image
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone… — William Maxwell Gentleman Copy Share Image
