places quotes

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.