“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”
“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”
“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”
“If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.”
“A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.”
“Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.”
“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.”
“The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.”
“Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.”
“A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.”
“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people’s lives.”
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.”
“There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.”
“Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.”