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Steven Millhauser Quotes

If you fear phantoms, you’re like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark Picture Quote #1

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger Picture Quote #1

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, ‘Getting Closer,’ is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of ‘The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,’ a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply Picture Quote #1

If you read a story with an ‘I’ or a ‘he’ or a ‘she,’ you’re in familiar territory - but ‘we’ is mostly unexplored. I think of ‘we’ as an adventure Picture Quote #1

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases Picture Quote #1

God pity the poor novelist Picture Quote #1

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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams Picture Quote #1

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself Picture Quote #1

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing Picture Quote #1

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal Picture Quote #1

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude Picture Quote #1

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant Picture Quote #1

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I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place Picture Quote #1

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing Picture Quote #1

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If you fear phantoms, you’re like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark (Steven Millhauser Quotes) I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger. (Steven Millhauser Quotes) One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, ‘Getting Closer,’ is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of ‘The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,’ a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply. (Steven Millhauser Quotes) If you read a story with an ‘I’ or a ‘he’ or a ‘she,’ you’re in familiar territory - but ‘we’ is mostly unexplored. I think of ‘we’ as an adventure. (Steven Millhauser Quotes) Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases. (Steven Millhauser Quotes) God pity the poor novelist (Steven Millhauser Quotes) Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams (Steven Millhauser Quotes) I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself (Steven Millhauser Quotes) We know nothing. Absolutely nothing (Steven Millhauser Quotes) All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal (Steven Millhauser Quotes) His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude (Steven Millhauser Quotes) I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant (Steven Millhauser Quotes) I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place (Steven Millhauser Quotes) Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing (Steven Millhauser Quotes)