Madison Smartt Bell Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Madison Smartt Bell quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.”
“To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.”
“I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.”
“In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).”
“Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.”
“Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.”
“Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.”
“I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.”
“I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.”
“John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.”
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