What an incredible day in Seattle! We’ve met so many brilliant and kind literary folk on the bookfair floor, and visited many of our friends at their panels. Here our some of our favorite tweets from AWP so far:
“Sometimes our disguises are more revealing than we know.” (Robert Root in “The I or the Eye: The Narrator’s Role in Nonfiction”)
“You are part of a literary ecosystem, and you have to contribute to it.” (Rob Spillman in “New Trends in Literary Publishing”)
“Publishing has always been in crises. It’s fine. You are poor because writers are poor.” (Colin Dickey in “Books on Books”)
“The book needs to be the character.” (Ellen Brown in “Books on Books”)
“In our field nothing is really innovative. The writer is innovative.” (Ira Silverberg in “New Trends in Literary Publishing”)
“Kurt depicted the world and the world paid attention.” (Jason Skipper in “The Literary Legacy of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain”)
“What we see in the ‘Dream Songs’ is the psyche, or the soul, talking itself sane.” (Kathleen Graber in a John Berryman Tribute)
