Thinking Quotes by Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

Book

Responsibility

Thinking

Garth Greenwell

I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

Inward

Thinking

Writing

Garth Greenwell

I don’t think I’m qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I’d say that I don’t think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you’d like to.

Bed

Order

Thinking

Garth Greenwell

I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness – to my experience of humanness – and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms – sex, desire, love – can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.

Light

Sex

Thinking

Garth Greenwell

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That’s too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

Ambition

People

Thinking

Garth Greenwell

I think it’s harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

Patterns

Reflection

Thinking

Garth Greenwell

I think one reason I’m drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

Exercise

Mean

Thinking

Garth Greenwell

I’m still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort of thing, and a writer who has meant a great deal to me, is Henry James: there’s a magical way that he has of turning the slightest gesture into a whole world of drama and feeling.

Drama

Thinking

Weather

Garth Greenwell

Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what’s a little frightening to me right now is the fact that it feels so entirely opposed to the privacy that is writing.

Littles

Thinking

Writing

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Thinking Quotes by Garth Greenwell

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

I don’t think I’m qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I’d say that I don’t think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you’d like to.

I think it’s harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

I think one reason I’m drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what’s a little frightening to me right now is the fact that it feels so entirely opposed to the privacy that is writing.

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