Aging Quote by Sigrid Nunez

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.

— Sigrid Nunez

When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals and children…

— Sigrid Nunez

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read…

— Sigrid Nunez

“It all sounds much crazier now than it did at the time, but even back then I wasn't sure how Ann could possibly believe…

— Sigrid Núñez

I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this…

— Sigrid Nunez

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration…

— Sigrid Nunez

You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like…

— Sigrid Nunez

“I did not yet know that, contrary to youth's sense of itself as tolerant, freethinking, and egalitarian, it is more often stubbornly critical and…

— Sigrid Núñez

“She said, "I wish I had been born poor." ("I wish I'd been born an Indian" - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would have been…

— Sigrid Núñez

“ Strays is what a writer I recently read calls those who, for one reason or another, and despite whatever they might have wanted…

— Sigrid Nunez

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

— Sigrid Nunez

“Like many women, she would always find it easier to feel for a male (except, of course, her husband, against whom she bore innumerable,…

— Sigrid Nunez