Ronald Sukenick quotes:

Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.

If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.