Four Kanji Quotes & Sayings

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities. — Molly Antopol

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. — Rodger Kamenetz

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating. — Renee Fleming

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. — James Stephens

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. — Steve Lacy

she'd watched him hold his wife's — Samantha Bayarr