Quotes – Page 3 – Annabel Smith

Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn’t struck you….

The best thing I’ve done in recent years has been to… re-read certain books with dedication, with an old fidelity, as if something…

I’m waiting for a voice. A voice that isn’t mine. An old voice, novelistic and solid. Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home

Love is not what we think it will be, we can’t imagine what it will do to us going in, we can’t imagine…

Sometimes when we write, we wash everything clean, as if by doing so we could advance toward something. We ought to simply describe…those…

Rejection has value. It teaches us when our work or our skillset is not good enough and must be made better… Rejection refines…

You need to write for the kind of reader you want to be… the books I love to read are the books that…

Whatever the art form, the harder I have to work, the more that work will stay with me. I like paintings or artworks…

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner

The aim of literature is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. Donald Barthelme Come Back, Dr. Caligari

Annabel Smith