Gregory Allen Howard Quotes

• I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Ideas, Literature, Rooms

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• Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Home is a complex and resonant idea.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Home, Ideas, Complexes

  "A Book is a Machine for Stories". Interview with Martin Riker, logger.believermag.com. April 22, 2015.

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• I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Children, Writing, Games

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• I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Trying, Way, Return

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• One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Might, Curious, Form

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