Quotes Tagged With :welt

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression....

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions....

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how....

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest....

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since....

We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to....

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth....

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used....

Human life is fiction's only theme.

(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's....