By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? …

- Adam Ross

I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my brain. Both…

- Adam Ross

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

- Adam Ross

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think …

- Adam Ross

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

- Adam Ross

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is…

- Adam Ross

I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goo…

- Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop v…

- Adam Ross

There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considere…

- Adam Ross