Novelty Detective Quotes by Ben H. Winters

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for…

— Ben H. Winters

“and no more real Dunkin’ Donuts.”

— Ben H. Winters

Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.

— Ben H. Winters

“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.”

— Ben H. Winters

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest…

— Ben H. Winters

It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are…

— Ben H. Winters

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things…

— Ben H. Winters

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

— Ben H. Winters

“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully”

— Ben H. Winters

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think…

— Ben H. Winters

“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to watch you…

— Ben H. Winters

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to…

— Ben H. Winters