30 Quotes by Andrea Barrett

Adrianne Harun’s dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.

Slowly, I began to relearn something I’d once grasped but had lost sight of: that emotion – that central element of fiction – derives not from information or from explanation, nor from a logical arrangement of the facts, but specifically from powerful images and from the qualities of language: diction, rhythm, form, structure, association, metaphor. And sometimes I also had glimmers of another thing I’d once known: how effectively information can be used to wall off emotion.