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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present QUOTES

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present QUOTES

1 " People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

2 " One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

3 " We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created---civilization, courtesy, decency---is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

4 " We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

5 " The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

6 " ...my thoughts don't really bump along this way, but they do bump somehow, and it's more honest--more pedagogically useful, more truthful--to arrange them in a loose, disconnected, provisional way than to deliver only the conclusions. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

7 " They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

8 " And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce an inferiority complex... "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

9 " No doubt he is more than that, but we have no time to inquire. "

― , Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present