That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I… — Adam Haslett Copy Share
“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I'm going to say this once,' he said, 'so you had better listen. You're twelve years old and you have a lot of ideas… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Everyone has nightmares. They're tough sometimes. You wake up and you get on with things. That's just how it is.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I knew Michael had to be right about the argument that would come later because Mom didn’t say anything about us being gone or even ask where we’d been. In the kitchen, Dad had the extra cheerfulness he got with us when Mom was angry at him. He let us each drop a lobster in the boiling water. He had… — Adam Haslett Copy Share
“He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never filled with… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
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