96 Quotes by Darin Strauss

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.

Conjoined twins are identical siblings who develop one placenta out of a single fertilised ovum. No cases of conjoined triplets or quadruplets have been documented.

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.

I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.

I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.