Rebecca McClanahan Quotes

To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.