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Category: Quotes

Lynn, Loretta, “Loretta Lynn Didn’t Pretty Things Up” New York Times, October 4, 2022

Interview by Jon Pareles “The more you hurt, the better the song is,” she told me in a 2016 New York … More

country music, Loretta Lynn, Music, songwriting

Erdrich, Louise, “Tales of Burning Love” The Art of Fiction Interview with (Harper Perennial 1996)

I think I meant that grand ideas kill first efforts. Begin with something in your range. Then write it as … More

failure, Louise Erdrich, Ritual, writing

Fuentes, Carlos “On Mexican Time” A New Time for Mexico (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1996)

Sun, solitude, soil. I remember a great lecture by Gaos in which he spoke of art as truth transformed by … More

Art, Carlos Fuentes, earth, Gaos, History, land, Narrative, pluralism, roots, Truth, world

Fuentes, Carlos “On Mexican Time” A New Time for Mexico (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1996)

In any case, voyage and narrative are twins because both signify a displacement, an abandonment of the place, the plaza, … More

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, Narrative, storytelling, the world, Travel, voyage, writing

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