Book Quote by Garth Greenwell

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

— Garth Greenwell

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

— Garth Greenwell

“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think…

— Garth Greenwell

The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least…

— Garth Greenwell

I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness -…

— Garth Greenwell

I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put…

— Garth Greenwell

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as…

— Garth Greenwell

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

— Garth Greenwell

It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties…

— Garth Greenwell

I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate…

— Garth Greenwell

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let…

— Garth Greenwell

My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as…

— Garth Greenwell