Carolina QuotesAllan Gurganus
North Carolina · born or raisedBorn 1947
American novelist and story writer
- Born in Rocky Mount
- Studied at Rocky Mount High School
- Worked at Duke University
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I urge my fiction students to put something funny on each page and something beautiful on every other one.
Literature is not a behavioral guidebook. Its very fossil fuel is wrongdoing.
A writer’s major tool is his own major subject: memory.
People were telling stories eons before they ever figured how to write them down. Some novelists derive major inspiration from Gutenberg’s typography itself. Others, like me, still go to the well of tale-told narrative. We believe that human conversation shapes itself toward legend.
Holding on to the great “What if?” requires a willingness to live wide-eyed.
There were people in my hometown who were famous for how they told one to three stories. Some were old guys sitting at service stations, and they took requests.