Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.

- Lore Segal

I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.

- Lore Segal

Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of new and di…

- Lore Segal

I'm bad at thinking about society. I love to make fun of very small aspects. For instance the privacy rules we have in the States. Where you sign thi…

- Lore Segal

Franz Kafka is a huge influence, more than the Grimms. To allow yourself to get into the coal bucket and fly to the sky ... we learned that from Kafk…

- Lore Segal

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very atta…

- Lore Segal

Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be u…

- Lore Segal

It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the heart. They were Scotti…

- Lore Segal

Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair col…

- Lore Segal