Quotes by Gary Lutz

Gary Lutz

Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can’t do much about how drawers fill up.

Matter

Might

Wheels

Dylan Nice’s Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

Book

Nice

Years

I don’t like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between those few moments of modest but decisive catastrophe, misfortunes so fittingly flimsy they’re almost welcome. The heart doesn’t storm that often on its own, so you have to wait for something outside of yourself to get the wrecking ball rolling, and then you’re set: you’ve finally got an impression to make on others – you’re in the world distinctly and distinguishable now. It’s only by our ravages that we’re recognizable to each other at last.

Heart

Waiting

Writing

I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I heard words emerge from mouths but didn’t get the hang of how people hung the things out as if on lines to get their gripes and recreational distempers yowlingly known.

Book

Growing Up

People

I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what’s there to understand, really? Everything I later learned to understand was unspeakably ugly anyway. In time, I bought some rulebooks and squeezed my way onto the honor roll, but, decades later, I’ve been pointed toward people described as “actively dying” who only now and then seemed to be going about it friskily.There was mostly no hustle I could notice.

Dying

Honor

People

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don’t fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

Fall

I was a great many far cries from myself.

Cry

Great Men

I’ve been within an inch of my life.

Inches

If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can’t stress enough that I detest writing, it’s something that sticks with me not from any English class but from some awfully recondite driver’s ed. seminars I had the privilege to audit during my mid-teens, and to this day I probably misunderstand it anyway. It’s the term “right of way.”

Believe

Stress

Writing

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

Cost

Dollars

Problem

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Dollars

Dying

Fall

Grace

Great Men

Growing Up

Heart

Honor

Inches

Lying

Matter

Mean

Might

Mirrors

Mother

Nervous

Nice

Night

People

Problem

Simple

Soul

Stress

Tired

Waiting

Wheels

Wise

Wonder

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Gary Lutz

Gary Lutz

Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can’t do much about how drawers fill up.

Dylan Nice’s Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I heard words emerge from mouths but didn’t get the hang of how people hung the things out as if on lines to get their gripes and recreational distempers yowlingly known.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don’t fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

I’ve been within an inch of my life.

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

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