If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.

Sara Levine

Mots clés humor life



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Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.

Sara Levine

Mots clés about-the-nature-of-literature



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Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes.

Sara Levine

Mots clés dead-birds random-as-birdshit



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The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.

Sara Levine

Mots clés essays



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They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.

Sara Levine

Mots clés academics



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No doubt he is more than that, but we have no time to inquire.

Sara Levine


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...my thoughts don't really bump along this way, but they do bump somehow, and it's more honest--more pedagogically useful, more truthful--to arrange them in a loose, disconnected, provisional way than to deliver only the conclusions.

Sara Levine


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And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce an inferiority complex...

Sara Levine


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People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Sara Levine

Mots clés writing writers authors writers-on-writing



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One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

Sara Levine

Mots clés self-awareness



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