32 Quotes by Antonya Nelson

Melissa Pritchard’s prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

Writing is a completely private act. It’s in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I’m creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side – wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn’t go away is the one to pay attention to.

Our mother had faith in literature the way others had faith in God or America; she put herself in its hands the way patients did their physicians; she prescribed it, she preached it.