25 Quotes by David Bezmozgis

A measure of earth under your feet that you could call your own. Was there a more primitive concept? But nobody lives in the ether.

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I’m very proud of, but I didn’t want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

It’s not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

This is what I discovered during my imprisonment. I saw the human character in its naked form. I saw at one end a narrow rank of villainy, and at the other a narrow rank of virtue. In the middle was everyone else. And I understood that the state of the world is the result of the struggle between these two extremes.