Detectives Quotes by Ben H. Winters

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for…

— Ben H. Winters

“and no more real Dunkin’ Donuts.”

— Ben H. Winters

Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.

— Ben H. Winters

“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.”

— Ben H. Winters

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest…

— Ben H. Winters

It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are…

— Ben H. Winters

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

— Ben H. Winters

“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully”

— Ben H. Winters

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think…

— Ben H. Winters

“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to watch you…

— Ben H. Winters

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to…

— Ben H. Winters