Noy Holland quotes

Noy Holland quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.”
-- Noy Holland

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“Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of languageâ€”a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writerâ€™s decisions.”
-- Noy Holland

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“The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.”
-- Noy Holland

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