Mean Quotes by Nathan Englander

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like…

— Nathan Englander

“How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.”

— Nathan Englander

I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I…

— Nathan Englander

“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8 block somewhere,…

— Nathan Englander

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

— Nathan Englander

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

— Nathan Englander

There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a…

— Nathan Englander

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

— Nathan Englander

When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean.

— Nathan Englander

So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.

— Nathan Englander

The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of…

— Nathan Englander