It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

- Edith Pearlman

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

- Edith Pearlman

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us …

- Edith Pearlman