To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books are a powerful antidote for loneliness, for the moral purposelessness of the leisure class. It’s our… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse artistic and… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“This is what songs do, even dumb pop songs: they remind us that emotions are not an inconvenient and vaguely embarrassing aspect of the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume.… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a novel that… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
