Showing posts with label Alfred Knopf Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alfred Knopf Canada. Show all posts
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"Songs are easy, he said. I mean on the page. That's hard. Then you're a writer, she said. A writer is someone who finds writing more difficult than other people do."
"As a child I read Jane Eyre, and again later, as a university student. It is, above all, a novel about submission. Confinement and submission—zones of submission. All spaces in the novel are enclosures of female submission...each a zone of submission and indoctrination to familial tyranny, institutional and religious doctrine, and white masculinity. The major ethical event is how Jane will resist or inhabit these zones of submission: the love plot is what follows."
"The inexchangeable pleasure of her conversation. Just to walk the streets saying things, anything, just the act itself, walking together at the same speed, and talking, purely to amuse and please one another, to make each other stupidly laugh, for no further accomplishment, no higher purpose, to let their words rise and disperse forever in the damp brackish air."
