I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

- Norman Rush

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.

- Norman Rush

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

- Norman Rush

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every indivi…

- Norman Rush

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

- Norman Rush

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

- Norman Rush

It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her,…

- Norman Rush

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

- Norman Rush

Small breasts are best for the long haul.

- Norman Rush