Joanna Scott Quotes & Sayings

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24 most famous Joanna Scott quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.”
Joanna Scott Quotes
“How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.”
Joanna Scott Quotes
“In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.”
Joanna Scott Quotes
“In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.”
Joanna Scott Quotes
“Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.”
Joanna Scott Quotes
“Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.”
Joanna Scott Quotes
“The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.”
Joanna Scott Quotes
“As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.”
“I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.”
“I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.”

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