I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“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 others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in…” quote by Ben H. Winters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ea/ben-h-winters-14454_activist_here-in-america-we-have-a-man-donald-tru_946555.jpg)