Reif Larsen Quotes

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

A text is evolutionary by its very nature.

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.