I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night.
Guy Davenport0
Next quotes
Guy Davenport:
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because yGuy Davenport:
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humilGuy Davenport:
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tellGuy Davenport:
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.Guy Davenport:
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sGuy Davenport:
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of gGuy Davenport:
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.Guy Davenport:
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.Guy Davenport:
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an ItalianGuy Davenport:
I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictur