You discover over time what you can do and what you can’t. Not everything is a matter of choice.—Siri Hustvedt, interviewed by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes, and that’s the hardest thing, because we want to flinch.—Robert Olen Butler, interviewed by Heather Iarusso

I admire clever art, but I only love art that moves me.—Stephen Dixon

I like to be effaced, so it’s just the characters doing whatever they are doing—you’re not thinking of me at all, you’re not aware of me.—Richard Bausch, interviewed by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais

You have a relationship to the world and to people and there is so much that you don’t let people see. Of course, that’s true of everyone.—Sigrid Nunez

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