Floyd Skloot quote: "I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains."

For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. ...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
FLOYD SKLOOT

Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep beca...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never hav...
FLOYD SKLOOT

A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or gluco...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can an...
FLOYD SKLOOT

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our se...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from ...
FLOYD SKLOOT

If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, stic...
FLOYD SKLOOT

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large she...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life dr...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Sa...
FLOYD SKLOOT

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgett...
FLOYD SKLOOT

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a mome...
FLOYD SKLOOT

At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow s...
FLOYD SKLOOT

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
FLOYD SKLOOT

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the cent...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair&#...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea c...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I&#...
FLOYD SKLOOT

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which y...
REBECCA SKLOOT

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
REBECCA SKLOOT

Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
EDDIE FLOYD

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.
EDDIE FLOYD

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.
EDDIE FLOYD

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
EDDIE FLOYD

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
EDDIE FLOYD

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
EDDIE FLOYD

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
EDDIE FLOYD

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
FLOYD PATTERSON

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
FLOYD PATTERSON

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
FLOYD PATTERSON

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step clo...
FLOYD PATTERSON

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
FLOYD ABRAMS

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
FLOYD ABRAMS

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and...
FLOYD ABRAMS

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo...
FLOYD ABRAMS

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye...
FLOYD ABRAMS

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law...
FLOYD ABRAMS

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o...
FLOYD ABRAMS

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate th...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also devel...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
CARLISLE FLOYD

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was aca...
CARLISLE FLOYD

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable positio...
CARLISLE FLOYD

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the y...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomf...
CARLISLE FLOYD

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value it...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it conta...
CARLISLE FLOYD

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say ...
CARLISLE FLOYD

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
CARLISLE FLOYD

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out...
CARLISLE FLOYD

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but p...
CARLISLE FLOYD

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sce...
CARLISLE FLOYD

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv...
CARLISLE FLOYD

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
RAY FLOYD

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking f...
KEITH FLOYD

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD

Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall.
PINK FLOYD

If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a...
PINK FLOYD

If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this d...
PINK FLOYD

I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.
PINK FLOYD

How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after ...
PINK FLOYD

There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through ...
PINK FLOYD

There's someone in my head but it's not me.
PINK FLOYD

And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry a...
PINK FLOYD

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
FLOYD DELL

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD

The girls are very excited and pumped up. They are a little nervous, but I think they are ready for ...
ANGELL FLOYD

I was trying to slow the ball down and they were trying to push the ball. That is the difference in ...
ANGELL FLOYD

Our defense picked up in the third quarter. Our defense was horrible in the second quarter. We were ...
ANGELL FLOYD

It was ugly but it was a win and we'll take it.
ANGELL FLOYD

It was good to see the girls can overcome obstacles and even pick up their game even more. They step...
ANGELL FLOYD

When her shot is on, give it to her.
ANGELL FLOYD

If we can hang with them, then we can hang with most anybody else in the state. It is good to see th...
ANGELL FLOYD

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love i...
FLOYD HENDERSON

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of nat...
CARLISLE FLOYD

[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Mil...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, se...
FLOYD ABRAMS

will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that...
FLOYD ABRAMS

a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.
FLOYD ABRAMS

coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.
FLOYD ABRAMS

Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the his...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I tried to use the voice so it was not strictly recitative or singing or spoken word. I tried a grea...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also develop...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions ...
CARLISLE FLOYD

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vi...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
RAY FLOYD

I told him that if he ran (for governor) his bipartisan honeymoon as mayor would come to an end and ...
FLOYD CIRULI

A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
RAY FLOYD

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it wa...
PINK FLOYD

How I wish, how I wish you were here...We're just two lost soulsswimming in a fish bowl,Year after y...
PINK FLOYD

If you have anything on the throw and it's accurate, you've got a chance,
CLIFF FLOYD

A roller coaster. We went from thinking we were in it to being out of it like that. It was shocking.
CLIFF FLOYD

I don't recall seeing anything quite like this.
TIM FLOYD

We want to try to hit a happy medium so everybody's happy. We won't want a bunch of money. The goal ...
ALLEN FLOYD

That's a market we've been working on for years. It's good news, real good news. It'll give the chip...
ALLEN FLOYD

Wish You Were Here"

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain....
PINK FLOYD

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
PINK FLOYD

Money, it's a gas,
PINK FLOYD

How could you treat me this way?Running away.I need you, Babe.Why are you running away?
PINK FLOYD

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
PINK FLOYD

Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD

Is There Anybody Out There?
PINK FLOYD

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition, There's a hunger still unsatisfied, Our weary eyes still ...
PINK FLOYD

Dark Side of the Moon,
PINK FLOYD

There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through ...
PINK FLOYD

You'd Better Run.....run like hell
PINK FLOYD

The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.
PINK FLOYD

Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is m...
PINK FLOYD

...And then one day you'll find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you mis...
PINK FLOYD

If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this d...
PINK FLOYD

Senators Collins and Carper have been outstanding as the true drivers of postal reform. Postage cost...
CRAIG FLOYD

We've had a premise and a game plan for that set aside all along in our plans -- a Plan A, Plan B, P...
FLOYD REESE

Therein is the key to this whole bowl of spaghetti.
FLOYD ROGERS

It was made very clear to me in discussions with Mr. Libby's counsel that he had personally approved...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
CARLISLE FLOYD

We always felt that our lineup was great. You don't have a relief point, from a pitching standpoint....
CLIFF FLOYD

Every once in awhile, the Man upstairs sends someone down here who is just really, really good. I'm ...
CLIFF FLOYD

There is a great reluctance on the part of journalists..to pick up the phone and sort of badger sour...
FLOYD ABRAMS

This is always a pivotal point. This is a telling point. ... We took a good team out of their game t...
FLOYD IRONS

The receivers are maybe a little bit shy at the top, but maybe thicker and more plentiful in the sec...
FLOYD REESE

It would have been like 'Wow!' ... I've always wanted to see this place on a night like that.
CLIFF FLOYD

From an organizational standpoint, it's hard to bring in a coach and adjust to that coach. An organi...
FLOYD REESE

There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're m...
FLOYD PATTERSON

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer ...
FLOYD PATTERSON

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
FLOYD PATTERSON

You get into serious trouble when - during a heated exchange - the mind starts to ask questions abou...
FLOYD PATTERSON

I'm afraid to praise him. I'm afraid he won't want to play Saturday.
TIM FLOYD

I'm a little hesitant to anoint this team. I'm still very guarded about who we are. We still haven't...
TIM FLOYD

It's not so bad for politicians and Pulitzer Prize poets and certain intellectuals in this country t...
FLOYD PATTERSON

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.
FLOYD PATTERSON

What I expect from the police department is an adequate and timely response to keep the streets orde...
FLOYD PATTERSON

I could never be with a woman during training. Because my knees would get very weak. My opinion is b...
FLOYD PATTERSON

Something is going on. We're going to find out exactly what it is that has my percentages not where ...
CLIFF FLOYD

It's in the identical spot as last year. I assume it's scar tissue or something.
CLIFF FLOYD

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluste...
RAY FLOYD

voluntary and not coerced.
FLOYD ABRAMS

We would be defending that. Mr. Risen did a serious and solid job. He has made no apology.
FLOYD ABRAMS

On her way to a Marilyn Manson concert
PINK FLOYD

And if I show you my dark side will you still hold me tonight and if I open my heart to you and show...
PINK FLOYD

We're just trying to keep our heads above water. Like I said, we're in last place. The organization ...
CLIFF FLOYD

You know Carlos might have had a life-altering experience. He knows how close he came to being real ...
CLIFF FLOYD

Then I look at myself: 'What are you not doing?' Take the positive out of everything, no matter what...
CLIFF FLOYD

That's when the book is good: the struggle part,
CLIFF FLOYD

If we believe we can do it, we'll be OK.
CLIFF FLOYD

He definitely says he'll be all right,
CLIFF FLOYD

It's been tough for me, ... It's one of those things I'm not too good with. Especially since I lean ...
CLIFF FLOYD

It's always important to see where you stand as a team. In a division like this, you need all the he...
CLIFF FLOYD

[One of Miller's lawyers involved in the earlier discussions, Floyd Abrams, said there was] a great ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of ...
FLOYD DELL

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, fly high, You're never gonna die, You're ...
PINK FLOYD

I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

Floyd Skloot

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