Lents Quotes & Sayings

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new. — Thomas Hardy

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. — Valerie Simpson

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. — Nancy Spain

In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in. — Laura Owens

for you to drive off the bridge, but not long enough — S.G. Lents

Write naked. Write in exile. Write in blood. — Denis Johnson