Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
mother father heart
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.
morning father night
Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.
years different next
Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.
writing laughing paper
Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.
love-is deepest-love written
Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.
organization growth movement
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
believe civilization clothes
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
girlfriend numbers imagination
Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor.
numbers miracle limits
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
who-we-are
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
fluency tongue mint
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
government journalism line manhattan propaganda
At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
best broadcast business chechnya despite meet notable quickly sites throughout tourist town word work
Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.