Minor Black Figures Quotes

“Form with no content, no animating idea except the giddy profusion of language itself. That made one a writer, perhaps even a poet, but did not make a critic.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“Could you take the ordinary seriously without tuning it into some kind of sentimental, romantic bullshit? Could you?”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures

“Child prodigies got pickled by their talent and rendered emotionally childlike for the rest of their lives. Too much expectation at too early an age gave an air of premature maturity that later in life turned out to be immaturity.”
― Brandon Taylor, Minor Black Figures