Walter Kirn Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Walter Kirn quotes and sayings page 7 (novelist). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 89 we have.
“I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.”
“A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.”
“Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.”
“At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.”
“Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.”
“I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.”
“My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.”
“Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.”
“Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.”
“I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.”
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