Author: Bill Clegg

Quotes

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

- Bill Clegg

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

- Bill Clegg

It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.

It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.

- Bill Clegg

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

- Bill Clegg

William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore.

William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore.

- Bill Clegg

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