John Edgar Wideman Quote

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.


Conversations with John Edgar Wideman (ed. 1998)


One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.