Best quotes by John Edgar Wideman on Time
Checkout quotes by John Edgar Wideman on Time
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‟ The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.
- John Edgar Wideman
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‟ Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.
- John Edgar Wideman
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‟ I wish I had time to listen to music more.
- John Edgar Wideman
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‟ I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother's house.
- John Edgar Wideman
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‟ Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.
- John Edgar Wideman
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‟ I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.
- John Edgar Wideman
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‟ When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
- John Edgar Wideman