Best quotes by Claire Messud on Experience

Checkout quotes by Claire Messud on Experience

• ‟ The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

  - Claire Messud
  

• ‟ I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

  - Claire Messud
  

• ‟ I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

  - Claire Messud
  

• ‟ For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.

  - Claire Messud
  

• ‟ In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

  - Claire Messud