Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energ…

- Richard Eder

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

- Richard Eder

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

- Richard Eder

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the mar…

- Richard Eder

A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

- Richard Eder