William Goyen quotes
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“For me, environment is all. Place is absolutely essential.”
-- William GoyenSource : "Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews".
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“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”
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“It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”
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“Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.”
-- William Goyen -
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“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”
-- William GoyenSource : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.85, University of Texas Press
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“It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”
-- William GoyenSource : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.76, University of Texas Press
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