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Megan Mayhew Bergman
5 quotes
“My good habits: I don’t really watch television. I read a lot. I teach, which makes me think about what makes good work. I run, which helps me work out s and combat nerves about a first book. I parent, which is radically humbling and physical and informs my characterizations. I always have a in progress. I try not to read rejection letters twice.”
Megan Mayhew Bergman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a , I want to deepen my relationship to the natural world. I have no need to dominate nature, just a desire to live a little closer to it. When I read the work of female naturalists like LaBastille and Robin Kimmerer, whose work blends the scientific, tribal and spiritual, I sense a shared love and humility in the relationship between self and nature, not the loud note of personal triumph and chest-thumping we hear so loudly in early environmental work.”
Megan Mayhew Bergman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... crying at your own work is like laughing at your own joke — it's just not done.”
Megan Mayhew Bergman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“and I grew up, thirty years apart, in the small town of , situated on the in eastern North Carolina. A life-size portrait of Gurganus hung in our local library’s entryway, and I used to leaf through a copy of his best-known novel, “,” while waiting for my piano lessons to start. (Gurganus knew my music teacher, Gene Featherstone, socially. “A sweetheart,” he assured me.) For me, Gurganus was proof that you could come from the place where I lived—a place steeped in propriety, religion, and tradition—and become a writer.”
Megan Mayhew Bergman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vermont sort of demands humility and equanimity. No one really cares if you’re fancy or high achieving, and if you lead with that energy you will learn quickly that it’s unwelcome. There’s a coldness here that shocked me for years—but I’ve learned to appreciate the authenticity. No one’s faking much of anything; there’s no lipstick on the pigs here.”
Megan Mayhew Bergman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source