Calamities Quotes

“In order to draw, would one have to give up writing if to keep on writing one needed to draw—writing and drawing being identical gestures made with the hand—would to stop writing so as to draw make drawing impossible, since drawing was a way to think with the body and writing was the story of the body in thought?”
― Renee Gladman, Calamities

“You were going to say that writing was for birds flying when suddenly a feeling came over you. Someone beautiful was talking about your sentences. It felt like rain.”
― Renee Gladman, Calamities

“I drew against a hum in my head that was like happiness.”
― Renee Gladman, Calamities