Robert Boswell Professions : Short story writer Born : December 8, 1953 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Robert Boswell What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility? Robert Boswell black done white Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity. Robert Boswell covering definitions world Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him. Robert Boswell every-man defeat men Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. Robert Boswell nice writing people Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others. Robert Boswell character way Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. Robert Boswell young-writers passion writing I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues. Robert Boswell grow understanding change missing You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling. Robert Boswell feeling you time funny We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry. Robert Boswell principal father people school I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane. Robert Boswell stand me time life I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded. Robert Boswell fair who life people Similar Authors Arthur Shearly Cripps short-story-writer Ivan Vladislavic short-story-writer Deborah Eisenberg short-story-writer Doris Betts short-story-writer Diriye Osman short-story-writer Deb Olin Unferth short-story-writer All Authors
