9+ Allan Gurganus Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Allan Gurganus quotes and sayings.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them. — Allan Gurganus

Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape. — Allan Gurganus

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. — Allan Gurganus

I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there really was such a job. And if he could just write a poem that incorporated everything he felt and suspected and hoped for from America that he would have the position. — Allan Gurganus

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page. — Allan Gurganus

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something! — Allan Gurganus

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. — Allan Gurganus

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know. — Allan Gurganus

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. — Allan Gurganus