The traffic between storytelling and metaphysics is continuous.

— John Berger



How One Word Unlocks a Novel | Milan Kundera

"What is kitsch? That polyphonic passage is the keystone of the whole structure. The whole secret of its architectural balance is right there."

— Milan Kundera, on how the word ‘kitsch’ became the keystone of The Unbearable Lightness of Being passage, from The Art of the Novel

The Undignified SubIdeas That Lead to Writing | William Stafford

Love Writing; Hate Writing | Ann Patchett