“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 dare. Or maybe just couldn't. Fear. Friendship. Desire. Regret. Remorse. Longing. Hunger. Terror. It was getting… — 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 equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.” — 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
