To write it, it took three months; to conceive it –three minutes; to collect the data in it –all my life. – Source Unknown
The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing. – Source Unknown
A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals. – Source Unknown
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)