“Because that was the problem, really, wasn’t it, with being human? You couldn’t just be, couldn’t just live and exist without dragging your feet through the mud. You had to communicate, congregate, collaborate, cohabiate. You had to corroborate. Copulate. You… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread to own… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“I love this idea," Bruno says. "Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.” — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“My truth she'd said to him. What the hell is truth anyway Two separate questions yes. But not wholly unrelated. For truth no matter… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness,… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one. — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“Because that was the problem, really, wasn’t it, with being human? You couldn’t just be, couldn’t just live and exist without dragging your feet… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“Female readers, on the other hand, were unmoved by the book, one of them going so far as to give it the ultimate insult… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“If I've learned anything in the twenty-five years that have transpired between graduation and today it is this: I am stronger than I thought… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
