Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. — Roger Rosenblatt 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 actor and… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better. — 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 know of… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. — Roger Rosenblatt 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 a kind… — Roger Rosenblatt 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 at war… — 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 those occasions… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
