Carolina Quotes
There’s a huge amount of discipline and training and specific technique that can be learned; but ultimately it’s a matter of arriving each morning at the desk and finding that the cistern filled up in the night—or that it didn’t, which is mostly my fault.
Reynolds Price Carolinian
Source
"Reynolds Price, The Art of Fiction No. 127," interview before an audience at the 92nd Street Y, New York, November 19, 1990; The Paris Review, Issue 121, Winter 1991
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- interview
- work
- The Art of Fiction No. 127
- year
- 1990
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