Latest Kevin Brockmeier Quotes from Interviews

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• I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Book, Trying, Quiet

  Source: therumpus.net

• The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Book, Love Is, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

• If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Nice, Book, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Thinking, Opposites, Confusion

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  People, Effort, Quality

  Source: therumpus.net

• I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Believe, Good Things, Ready

  Source: therumpus.net

• I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Boys, Sky, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

• What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Writing, Long, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

• In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

• I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Mistake, Might, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

• I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Boys, Laughing, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

• I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Growing Up, Mind, Age

  Source: therumpus.net