“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“I know it’s supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and muffled beats.” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a mistress of… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
