Quotes by : Jincy Willett

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience.....

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.....

Jenny Marzen is who again?" Amy knew perfectly well who she was. Jenny Marzen was hot, hotter than Amy....

Actually, the Sniper's sense of humor frightened Amy more than anything else. The parody of Carla's poem....

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

People who wrote novels about universities hardly ever got them right. Max had spent his short working....

When she was eighteen years old she had almost drowned in the Kennebec River, not because of the pummeling....