Quotes by Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell

A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I’m also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He’s a genius.

Genius

Heart

White

Bulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.

Beautiful

Bulgaria

Country

Even though I don’t sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it’s clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

Art

Singing

Training

For me, music was always a second language. I didn’t have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

Language

Musical

Study

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

Blind

Invisible

People

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

Book

Responsibility

Thinking

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

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

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

Careers

Opposites

School

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

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Arrangements

Art

Beautiful

Bed

Blind

Book

Boundaries

Bulgaria

Careers

College

Conservatory

Country

Crazy

Drama

Exercise

Genius

Heart

Hints

Important

Invisible

Inward

Language

Left

Light

Littles

Mean

Moments

Musical

Musician

Narrative

New York

Night

Nonfiction

Opera

Opposites

Order

Patterns

People

Possibility

Race

Reading

Reflection

Responsibility

School

Sex

Singing

Study

Teacher

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Quotes by Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell

A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I’m also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He’s a genius.

Bulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.

Even though I don’t sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it’s clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

For me, music was always a second language. I didn’t have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

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 felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

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