I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore,… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“We sleep and nap in bed--my two piled up mattresses on the bare wooden floor. We are silent, dreamy. She surveys my photographs crowded… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“I loved him in the way young people are mad for those they wish to resemble.” — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“We recognized who we were at a glace--all irregulars from the drifting nation of dreamy youth. We're ghosts of those times now, just nicked,… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
