Character Quote by Adam Haslett

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's…

— Adam Haslett

“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the…

— Adam Haslett

“I'm going to say this once,' he said, 'so you had better listen. You're twelve years old and you have a lot of ideas…

— Adam Haslett

“Everyone has nightmares. They're tough sometimes. You wake up and you get on with things. That's just how it is.”

— Adam Haslett

“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.”

— Adam Haslett

“I knew Michael had to be right about the argument that would come later because Mom didn’t say anything about us being gone or…

— Adam Haslett

“He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.”

— Adam Haslett

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

— Adam Haslett

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into…

— Adam Haslett

“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never filled with…

— Adam Haslett

“Rasca a un altruista y verás sangrar a un hipócrita.”

— Adam Haslett

“It was one of those youthful promises that you make to yourself and keep long after you stop recognizing what you are doing, or…

— Adam Haslett