Happy birthday, Elias Canetti! Here are some quotes from the writer.
“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort whatsoever.”
“I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.”
“It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.”
“Ideally, you should use only words which you have filled with new meaning.”
“The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.”
John Madera's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.