I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really want to write, writing has to take precedence over everything else, except for taking care of… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
