Brown Baggers 2014 Selections
“There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour … The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual.”
“….the architect and planter, struggling against the moralist” : Discussing “Master of the Mountain”
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“…when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach — that it makes no sense.”
“Home, whether it be structure or familiar ground, is, finally, the identity that does not fade.”
“It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.” Amy Tan
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“This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire…”
Brown Baggers 2013 Selections
