There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
People spend their entire lives trying to construct something to grab onto: a family, a home, a business. Rarely does anyone seem… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
A lot of people produce podcasts in which they simply ramble on for hours about themselves and their lives. There is something… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be prestige shows. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
