If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
“Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share
