My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie’s Choice. A daring tour de force.Collection: Real
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.Collection: Reading
I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.Collection: Book
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There’s a story that wants to be told.Collection: Stories
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.Collection: Book
I don’t want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It’s just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.Collection: Stories
The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.Collection: Real
I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.Collection: Stories
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.Collection: Country
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.Collection: Real
It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.Collection: Real
To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.Collection: Stories
There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.Collection: Stories
You know, I don’t think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn’t. Probably because I don’t want to start thinking, “Am I popular?” I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.Collection: Book
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.Collection: Firsts
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.Collection: Stories
By and large books are mankind’s best invention.Collection: Book
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.Collection: Book