Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

- Lynn Freed

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp an…

- Lynn Freed

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

- Lynn Freed

Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having liste…

- Lynn Freed