9 Quotes by Lucy Corin

But even then I knew it wasn’t me that saved her life. It wasn’t about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn’t.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

If you think it’s worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you’re not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What’s called “realism” is actually highly formulaic.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart – a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks – a nest of sticks that snowballs – scary and marvelous.

I don’t want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I’m unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I’ve been consuming unconsciously.

You’re seeing something that you’ve seen a thousand times and you just like it. There’s nothing wrong with that but it’s not a revelation. It’s not a surprise. It’s comfort.

To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.

One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I’m really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.