Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 19, 1933
Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of th….
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awfu….
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense..
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defe….
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise..
I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing ….
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them ….
And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and ….
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. W….
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind..
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more.
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees.
When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'.
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them..
Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts..
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue ….
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun..
For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence..
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when..
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war..
It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to me, I was maybe 9, and he said to….