Linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it

― Jill Talbot, Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

“There are so many of us out there, trying to turn Spyrograph flowers into rocket ships.”
― Jill Talbot, Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

“A mind that moves associatively (as my mind does and probably your mind too) like a firefly in a grassy yard on a late June evening, has more fun (and other things too, of course, like static, like trouble) than a mind that moves logically or even chronologically.”
― Jill Talbot, Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction