“It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.” — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of… — Norman Rush Copy Share
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out… — Norman Rush Copy Share
“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident… — Norman Rush Copy Share
“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you… — Norman Rush Copy Share
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is… — Norman Rush Copy Share
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush Copy Share
“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody… — Norman Rush Copy Share
“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of… — Norman Rush Copy Share
I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same. — Norman Rush Copy Share
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush Copy Share
“It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.” — Norman Rush Copy Share
