17 Quotes by Jerome Charyn

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

Mi se întâmplă să stai în fața oglinzii ore în șir căutând semnele îmbătrânirii.Și totuși, ador oamenii în vârstă, au acele calități remarcabile de care tinerii nu dau dovadă.Vreau să îmbătrânesc fără să recurg la liftings.Acestea răpesc viața și personalitatea chipului.Vreau să am curajul de a rămâne loială chipului pe care mi l-am confecționat.

Viitorul există și sunt nerabdătoare să-l trăiesc.

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.