"Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is……" — Joanna Scott
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10 Quotes by Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott has 10 quotes on this site.
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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits…
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Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no…
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With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the…
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In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
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In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
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Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a…
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When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions…
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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
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