John Edgar Wideman Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

  John Edgar Wideman

  Believe, Past, I Believe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• There's something human that has to do with time and space and being who I am that is in progress and always will be in progress. And who I am, on different days, different moments, depends on different aspects of my past.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Past, Progress, Different

  Source: classic.esquire.com

• I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I could do that. I can. Have. Sometimes, not because I was callous but had to do it.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Past, Men, Tough

  Source: classic.esquire.com

• When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with." But another part of me knows that when I'm past the stage of writing, the book is gonna have good things about it, bad things about it - probably more bad than good. I just know that. That's who I am.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Writing, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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