“Insidious, these false versions of superiority and ease we project onto other families: how often they blind us to the surer comforts of our own.”
―
Bruce Holsinger,
The Gifted School
“You must convince your readers that your characters are flesh and blood rather than words on dead skin, that their loves and hatreds and passions are as deep and present as the readers' own. Your task is to delight, to pleasure, to lift your reader to another sphere of being and then strand him there, floating above the earth and panting for more lines.” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“You’ll be a lot less obsessed with what people think of you when you understand how infrequently they do.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“A blessing, to know the talents and limitations of those closest to you, what they’re capable of and what they aren’t. One kind of friend who will spend hours sifting through your psyche; another who will sacrifice half a day to scrubbing your toilets.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“It’s a real shame. It’s just not about the kids anymore.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Parents always want to manage the narrative instead of letting kids write their own.” She clapped a hand over her mouth.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Love can be sustaining even in the worst of circumstances. Bare life, though, can be passing hard to endure” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“Man is ever blind to his own faults, but fox-quick at perceiving those of others.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Invention of Fire
“Because success in life didn’t just happen. Things didn’t always work out, no matter where or how you were raised.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“You think of the great pieces of public art, the works that have transformed how we think about space, landscape, the environment. Like The Gates in Central Park. Or Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project in Detroit, where entire city blocks are transformed into new ways of visualizing siding and junk, trees and shrubs. I love the things Krajcberg did in Brazil. The guy spends fifty years living in caves, trees, deploying his art against environmental destruction.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Displacements
“poet should not be some sweet-singing bird in a trap, feasting on the meat while blind to the net. The net is the meat, all those entanglements and snares and iron claws that hobble us and prevent our escape from the limits of our weak and fallen flesh.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Invention of Fire
“A blessing, to know the talents and limitations of those closest to you, what they’re capable of and what they aren’t.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Go, little book, to our unfathomed friend, Above his silvered head to build a shrine, Retreat of Wisdom, Ignorance to mend. Full oft there shall you comfort and entwine His long limbs in bookish fetters benign. Thou shalt preserve those aquamarine gems, Or Gower’s friend shall cast you in the Thames.” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“We live in an immense world, whole universes of taste and touch and scent, of voices commingling in the light, and dying away with the common dread that stands at every man’s door. Yet we perceive and remember this world only as it creates those single fragments of experience: moments of everyday kindness, or self-sacrificing love, or unthinkable brutality.” ― Bruce Holsinger
“No dearness of price ought to hinder a man from the buying of books,” Angervyle wrote, “if he has the money that is demanded for them.” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“Gareth could sometimes sound like a goddamn parenting magazine you’d read at the pediatrician’s office.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Look at me. I’m the worst of all. This is the worst person I have ever been.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“They can be so bitchy and sneaky and competitive sometimes, like about who’s going to more parties or whose kid is busier or whatnot, especially my mom. But even when they’re stabbing each other in the back, they know how to help you through things, you know?” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“You must convince your readers that your characters are flesh and blood rather than words on dead skin, that their loves and hatreds and passions are as deep and present as the readers' own. Your task is to delight, to pleasure, to lift your reader to another sphere of being and then strand him there, floating above the earth and panting for more lines.” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“You’ll be a lot less obsessed with what people think of you when you understand how infrequently they do.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“A blessing, to know the talents and limitations of those closest to you, what they’re capable of and what they aren’t. One kind of friend who will spend hours sifting through your psyche; another who will sacrifice half a day to scrubbing your toilets.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“It’s a real shame. It’s just not about the kids anymore.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Parents always want to manage the narrative instead of letting kids write their own.” She clapped a hand over her mouth.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Love can be sustaining even in the worst of circumstances. Bare life, though, can be passing hard to endure” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“Man is ever blind to his own faults, but fox-quick at perceiving those of others.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Invention of Fire
“Because success in life didn’t just happen. Things didn’t always work out, no matter where or how you were raised.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“You think of the great pieces of public art, the works that have transformed how we think about space, landscape, the environment. Like The Gates in Central Park. Or Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project in Detroit, where entire city blocks are transformed into new ways of visualizing siding and junk, trees and shrubs. I love the things Krajcberg did in Brazil. The guy spends fifty years living in caves, trees, deploying his art against environmental destruction.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Displacements
“poet should not be some sweet-singing bird in a trap, feasting on the meat while blind to the net. The net is the meat, all those entanglements and snares and iron claws that hobble us and prevent our escape from the limits of our weak and fallen flesh.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Invention of Fire
“A blessing, to know the talents and limitations of those closest to you, what they’re capable of and what they aren’t.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Go, little book, to our unfathomed friend, Above his silvered head to build a shrine, Retreat of Wisdom, Ignorance to mend. Full oft there shall you comfort and entwine His long limbs in bookish fetters benign. Thou shalt preserve those aquamarine gems, Or Gower’s friend shall cast you in the Thames.” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“We live in an immense world, whole universes of taste and touch and scent, of voices commingling in the light, and dying away with the common dread that stands at every man’s door. Yet we perceive and remember this world only as it creates those single fragments of experience: moments of everyday kindness, or self-sacrificing love, or unthinkable brutality.” ― Bruce Holsinger
“No dearness of price ought to hinder a man from the buying of books,” Angervyle wrote, “if he has the money that is demanded for them.” ― Bruce Holsinger, A Burnable Book
“Gareth could sometimes sound like a goddamn parenting magazine you’d read at the pediatrician’s office.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“Look at me. I’m the worst of all. This is the worst person I have ever been.” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
“They can be so bitchy and sneaky and competitive sometimes, like about who’s going to more parties or whose kid is busier or whatnot, especially my mom. But even when they’re stabbing each other in the back, they know how to help you through things, you know?” ― Bruce Holsinger, The Gifted School
