K.J. Bishop

Quotes

• “Think of a potter taking a misshapen bowl from his wheel and pounding it back into the tub of clay. A soul suffers while...”
• “Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportun...”
• “He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in...”
• “My soul longs for God, but a man is not just his soul, is he? Terrible to say, my clay lusts after the clay of nubile gi...”
• “At that moment, he realised that he did not exist to her in the same way that he existed in his own perception. She held...”
• “It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is lost ...”
• “You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds some...”
• “The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by somet...”