“When I was five…I began to collect chickens…I favored those with one green eye and one orange or with overlong necks and crooked combs. [I drew mostly chickens] beginning at the tail, the same chicken over and over.”
“When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.”
“She was as sensitive about the artificial leg as a peacock about his tail”
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“Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.”
Writing Quotes
“You’ve got to learn to paint with words.”
“Anything that helps you see, anything that makes you look. There is nothing that doesn’t require the writer’s attention.”
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring.”
“A story is…not about telling the reader something. A story is about showing. What the fiction writer had to learn was how to become a graphic artist.”