Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“I know it’s supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
