Quotes About Winesburg

In "The Book of the Grotesque," the opening chapter of Winesburg, Ohio, Anderson explains his method through one of the parable-like stories that the book employs: an old man begins to write by picturing truths and the people who live by them. The truths themselves were beautiful, but "the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque, and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

so conspicuous was his abhorrence of "rebellious insolence" that he might have been enunciating the name of a menace resolved to undermine not just Winesburg, Ohio, but the great republic itself.