“Words are life set down on paper.”
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
“If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”
“How do you commemorate a year?A paper anniversary, but we arethe words written down, not the paper.”
“Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.”
“Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.”