“Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.” — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“More than anything, Natalie wanted to move to the bed, take Sophie's hand, sit beside her.Lay her head against her shoulder. But she didn't… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“I’m on the whatever-gets-this-book-that-I’m-working-on-written track. I have really done it a lot of different ways, to be honest. I’m a full-time Dad, I’ve been… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“The fever, I realized, had gone. Beneath my feet, the hardwood floor felt cool on my feet, the air gentle against my itching legs.… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“I’m a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any chance I… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
“...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters simply because… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
