The traffic between storytelling and metaphysics is continuous.

— John Berger



Repeating Oneself: A Principal Asset for a Writer | Tanya Berry

Berry’s writing, like the seasons, has a cyclical quality, returning again and again to the same ideas. Tanya once told him that his knack for repeating himself is his principal asset as a writer. He noted a few years ago, “That insight has instructed and amused me very much, because she is right and so forthrightly right.”

— “Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age,” by Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker

Alone: The Mind Finds Its Sea | Elizabeth Bishop

The Role of Poet, Novelist, Painter: Reveal Mystery in the Everyday | Patrick Modiano