Ryan

From Paris Review. (187, Winter 2008)

Interviewer

     Do you feel your books are getting better?

Ryan

     Progress − the idea of progress − doesn't mean anything to me.  I don't have to think my books are getting better.  I just want to keep going back to the same well to have another little drink. 

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Li Tuan

"Her hands of white jade by a window of snow
Are glimmering on a golden-fretted harp--
And to draw the quick eye of Chou Yu,
She touches a wrong note now and then."
-Li Tuan