Quote of the Day (William Maxwell, on the “Major Deprivation” of Serious Writers)

“If you search in the background of any serious writer, it isn't very long before you come upon a major deprivation of one sort or another—which the writer through the exercise of imagination tries to overcome or compensate for, or even make not have happened."—Editor/novelist William Maxwell (1908-2000), quoted in Poets & Writers Magazine, May-June 1994