Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 19, 1933
The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU….
You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the ….
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends..
It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later..
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on..
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art..
The book really comes to life in the rewriting..
You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you..
'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is pe….
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradua….
There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way..
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way..
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent..
If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really..
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the crit….
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all bu….
I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work….
It's amazing how much punishment we can take..
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frust….
There are no uncontaminated angels.