Joan Silber Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Joan Silber

You don't know what you're going to be faithful to in this world, do you? It was true I didn't have what other people had, I knew that, and yet I couldn't think of a single other life I envied - no, I couldn't - though I knew better than to try to get anyone to believe it. — Joan Silber

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge. — Joan Silber

A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate. — Joan Silber

A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means. — Joan Silber

Length is weight in fiction, pretty much. — Joan Silber

[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence. — Joan Silber

So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but I'm in disguise. But probably many people feel that at their weddings. — Joan Silber

If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself. — Joan Silber