47 Quotes by Cathleen Schine

In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with no plot at all beyond his own pleasure in language and humanity itself.

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

I grew up reading books about heroic collies.

I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.