Padgett Powell Book Quotations

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.