With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“Author reads for Seattle; it has always been his city. He reads for the buyer, who has always believed. Author reads one… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When I was living in Jerusalem, I used to write in a coffee shop called Tmol Shilshom. I'd sit at the same… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.” — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8 block somewhere,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
