Quotes by : Patricia Hampl

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather....

History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of....

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.....

We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only....

To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself.....

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret....

For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation....