"When we really start searching for the truth……" — Joanna Scott
"When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity."
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10 Quotes by Joanna Scott
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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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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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Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
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