J. M. Ledgard Quotes:

Our souls are made of water, Goethe says. So too, our bodies. There is a flow within us, rising and falling, unidirectional, to the heart. there is a flow without also. We circulate. We are drawn up, and we fall back down to earth again. It's all haemodynamics.

Topics: Fall, Heart, Water

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

source: - J M Ledgard (2011). “Submergence”, p.33, Random House

Topics: Moving, Thinking, Doors, You Think You Know, Corridors

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

Topics: Men, Shame, Proportion

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

source: - "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

Topics: Class, Fiction, World, Middle Class Family, Grappling