18 Quotes by Leonard Michaels

"Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you’re dying, nothing matters any more."

"There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world."

"Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it."

"Self-confidence can be crippling."

"The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling."

"Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself."

"I can only gesture at what makes a story good."

"So many writers make dope glamorous; a form of romantic transgression, or world-weariness, or poetic sensitivity, or hipness. Mainly it’s the stuff of ritualistic communion among inarticulate bores."