Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

William Kittredge

Stichwörter: writing meaning



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How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.

William Kittredge

Stichwörter: loss sadness home sorrow william-kittredge



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We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.

William Kittredge

Stichwörter: memoir



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We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.

William Kittredge

Stichwörter: stories



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I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

William Kittredge

Stichwörter: fear



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They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

William Kittredge

Stichwörter: war



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We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated. There will never be another setup like the one in which we thrived. Ruin it and we will have lost ourselves, and that is craziness.

William Kittredge


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