All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

- Steve Almond

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

- Steve Almond

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

- Steve Almond

I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how t…

- Steve Almond

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the n…

- Steve Almond

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

- Steve Almond

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

- Steve Almond

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

- Steve Almond

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

- Steve Almond