I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — 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
Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties. — 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
When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“Author reads for Seattle; it has always been his city. He reads for the buyer, who has always believed. Author reads one… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's… — 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
Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book… — 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 literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager… — 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 sometimes think about that, when I finish in something big I find it even hard, I feel like I lose an… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
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 Image
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. — 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
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 Image
