The Traveling Feast Quotes

“Sometimes you can look right at a thing and not see it. Where’s the pepper, where’s the cumin, where’s the spatula, where’s my joy?”
― Rick Bass, The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

“Meanwhile he grieves the impending loss of yet another cherished elder. Erin, somber, continues watching the little bird jumping around in the juniper, while I, with scrutiny, take discreet note of Doug's hollowing pain: the unspeakability of not being able, for once, to save a thing beloved.”
― Rick Bass, The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

“The sole purpose of all the other work was just to buy time to be still for a moment and write.”
― Rick Bass, The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

“What constitutes a fit between artist and mentor? It is not necessarily style, or even sensibility, though sensibility gets closer to describing it. Aesthetic might be the best. If a shared aesthetic exists, the mentor can come to view the mentee as another of his projects: a shaping and sculpting, and a carrying forward of the mentor’s aesthetic.”
― Rick Bass, The Traveling Feast: On the Road and At the Table With America's Finest Writers