73 Quotes by Howard Nemerov

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Our easy bones groaned, our flesh bakedon one side and shuddered on the other; and each manthought bitterly about primitive simplicityand decadence, and how he had been ruinedby civilization and forced by circumstancesto drink and smoke and sit up all nightinspecting those perfectly arbitrary cardsuntil he was broken-winded as a trout on a rockand had no use for the doctrines of Jean JacquesRousseau, and could no longer afforda savagery whether noble or not;

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow`s speed.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.