History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, ….
To search for the old is to understand the new..
I'm sure you're always working in your head, but when you're actually physically working, you're in your studio, right? For me, it changes all the ti….
If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when th….
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full blad….
There are some things that cannot be expressed through words. And that is why we dance..
It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart.
The Fuhrer is always right. I sense it..
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the hea….
When it's your time, it is your time..
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have neve….
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost….
Spin-offs were never really my thing..
Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it..
Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway..
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being..
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet guy. He's a big fan of my….
Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? Y….
We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it..
The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have access to a tool that peop….