Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown.…

- Frederic Tuten

If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

- Frederic Tuten

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

- Frederic Tuten

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contempo…

- Frederic Tuten

I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity …

- Frederic Tuten

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

- Frederic Tuten

When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone …

- Frederic Tuten