You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a way I was taught to think that's very suited to writing. And, of course, I'm thankful to have… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I think books can cure cancer and grow back hair. I can't say it enough. For me, that's why it's so syrupy.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
“How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.” — Nathan Englander Copy Share
I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8 block somewhere,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. — Nathan Englander Copy Share
There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. — Nathan Englander Copy Share
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. — Nathan Englander Copy Share
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share
The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books. — Nathan Englander Copy Share
I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
I didn't sleep the night I finished 'Sister Hills.' It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn't have a clue. It's a… — Nathan Englander Copy Share
