Chance Quote by Joseph Campbell

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what…

— Norman Maclean

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

— Norman Maclean

“Rarely in life do you find an object that retains its ability to continuously impact regardless of how many times it has been used.…

— Orly Wahba

“I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.”

— H.G. Wells

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do…

— Julia Glass

“A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have turned them…

— Judith Barrington

“Life is a blank book. Write about what you want to see happen and then step back – and experience what you’ve written.”

— Art Hochberg

I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you…

— Ian Mcewan

“Life is perhaps after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only…

— Anne Giardini

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again…

— Ann Packer

“I suppose I've never set out to write a novel in which nothing happens . . . only to write a novel about the…

— Alice McDermott

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding…

— Anna Quindlen