Nell Zink

When the past is hard to explain, it__ best to concentrate on the future.

The easy joy and the joyful ease of sex with men, their easy-access genitalia, their uncomplicated inner lives_

Lee explained to her that art for art__ sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can__ be living a life driven by need and desire.

I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.

I saw a cardinal when I was in Brooklyn, and I was almost moved to tears. I was, like, 'I can't believe this thing is legal. I can't believe this thing is in the wild. How did this happen? How has someone not killed them all? They're so conspicuous. They're gorgeous. How can they still be alive?'

Like beautiful homes, cute babies, or noble careers helping others, books can make us feel like we mean something positive, and in gratitude, we truly love them.

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

Peggy spent most of her time upstairs in the playroom, keeping him cleaned and fed. She was made to bring out the baby and accept praise for her work as if she were a being of a slightly lower social class _ which she was. A woman.