If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Being Copy Share Image
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is… — Roger Rosenblatt Battle Copy Share Image
If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the… — Roger Rosenblatt Actors Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To… — Roger Rosenblatt Bombs Copy Share Image
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize… — Roger Rosenblatt Death Copy Share Image
A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions… — Roger Rosenblatt Beautiful Copy Share Image