I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised. Rebecca Makkai Read Quote
Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is – sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is – has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you’re too close to see the whole thing. Rebecca Makkai Read Quote
We’re all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that’s what art is. Rebecca Makkai Read Quote
I have the distinct feeling that when I’m old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There’s a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things. Rebecca Makkai Read Quote
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know. Rebecca Makkai Read Quote
Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There’s a tremendous richness to that. Rebecca Makkai Read Quote
