Quotes by Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

Careful

Firsts

A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.

Crush

Father

Historical

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.

Dialect

Essentials

Missing

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

Placement

Position

Prayer

Here, in memory, we live and die.

Dies

Memories

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

Enough

People

Politeness

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.

Ifs

Stories

I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Knows

Order

Writing

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

Book

Reading

Sports

In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by ‘style.’ It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word – style – for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject ‘integrity.’ What else is the articulation of perception?

Integrity

Mean

Writing

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Acquired Taste

Art

Artist

Attention

Beloved

Book

Boredom

Burden

Careful

Celebration

Crazy

Crush

Dialect

Dies

Dream

Easy

Enough

Envy

Essentials

Expanding Universe

Father

Feelings

Firsts

Flying

Focus

Foxholes

Future

Golden

Grief

Hands

Hard

Heart

Historical

Humble

Ifs

Immortal

Integrity

Journey

Knees

Knitting

Knows

Landscape

Light

Literature

Long

May

Mean

Memories

Might

Mind

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Quotes by Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

Here, in memory, we live and die.

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.

I don’t write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

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