The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told. Old Cherokee SayingChris J. RiceTumblr (3.0; @chrisjrice)http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/"The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity … . I was a..."““The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity … . I...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/53385827541http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/53385827541Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:21:48 -0700"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring."“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.” -...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/53130734459http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/53130734459Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:03:38 -0700"Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most..."“Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe;...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/53022691830http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/53022691830Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:40:08 -0700"Good fiction is made of what is real, and reality is difficult to come by."“Good fiction is made of what is real, and reality is difficult to come by.” - Ralph...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52797842991http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52797842991Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:48:02 -0700"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of..."“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52545359912http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52545359912Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:25:00 -0700"I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature..."“I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields,...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52499230084http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52499230084Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:55:09 -0700"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes."“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.” - Euripides  (via eulum)http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52060373585http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/52060373585Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:24:26 -0700UFARATZA: c/o louise erdrichUFARATZA: c/o louise erdrich: k-rad: Leave the dishes. Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/51732216606http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/51732216606Thu, 30 May 2013 09:44:17 -0700"What interests me about the relationship between language/representation and the body is that the..."“What interests me about the relationship between language/representation and the body is that...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/50920162484http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/50920162484Mon, 20 May 2013 11:04:00 -0700"We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless,..."““We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/50727121753http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/50727121753Sat, 18 May 2013 06:42:55 -0700"People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read..."“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/49855022238http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/49855022238Tue, 07 May 2013 07:12:59 -0700"You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly..."“You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/49260293389http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/49260293389Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:53:17 -0700"Every literary work is forced upon its author in a mixture of vision, memory, idea, and action...."“Every literary work is forced upon its author in a mixture of vision, memory, idea, and...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/48880969356http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/48880969356Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:05:44 -0700"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full..."“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/48282281854http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/48282281854Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:50:56 -0700"Our common heart grieves."“Our common heart grieves.”http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/48075200647http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/48075200647Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:15:31 -0700"Why is self-expression, the relentless self-portrait, not a potentially legitimate form of art? Why..."“Why is self-expression, the relentless self-portrait, not a potentially legitimate form of...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/47124326118http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/47124326118Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:06:59 -0700"Let’s restore to publishing its true reputation—not as a hedge against the future, not as a bulwark..."“Let’s restore to publishing its true reputation—not as a hedge against the future, not as a...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46884981557http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46884981557Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:42:03 -0700"A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best."““A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.”” - Raymond Carver (via...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46864904970http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46864904970Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:36:14 -0700"Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when..."“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46862156231http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46862156231Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:56:26 -0700"It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very..."““It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about...http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46254213100http://chrisjrice.tumblr.com/post/46254213100Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:25:43 -0700