I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore,… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“We sleep and nap in bed--my two piled up mattresses on the bare wooden floor. We are silent, dreamy. She surveys my photographs crowded… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“I loved him in the way young people are mad for those they wish to resemble.” — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“We recognized who we were at a glace--all irregulars from the drifting nation of dreamy youth. We're ghosts of those times now, just nicked,… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
