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.....

All plots are cliche.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between....

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

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

(T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success.....

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....

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever,....