That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers. - Renata Adler
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.
- Renata Adler
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time. - Renata Adler
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature. - Renata Adler
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political. - Renata Adler
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. - Renata Adler
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances … - Renata Adler
Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances …
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupation… - Renata Adler
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupation…
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. - Renata Adler
Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of… - Renata Adler
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of…
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