Writer Quotes by Ben Marcus

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,…

— Ben Marcus

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

— Ben Marcus

“..., and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space…

— Ben Marcus

“Terms BEN MARCUS, THE 1. False map, scroll, caul, or parchment. It is comprised of the first skin. In ancient times, it hung from…

— Ben Marcus

“We can contain such secret misery, perversion.”

— Ben Marcus

“Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do,…

— Ben Marcus

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

— Ben Marcus

“This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then…

— Ben Marcus

“Who is setting the bar for what you call accessibility? The definition of “accessible” is “easy to understand,” and so much of the fiction…

— Ben Marcus

“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots.”

— Ben Marcus

“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the…

— Ben Marcus

“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.”

— Ben Marcus

“I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm,…

— Ben Marcus

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

— Ben Marcus

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of…

— Ben Marcus