Ben H. Winters

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive…

— Ben H. Winters

“and no more real Dunkin’ Donuts.”

— Ben H. Winters

Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.

— Ben H. Winters

“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.”

— Ben H. Winters

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come…

— Ben H. Winters

It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the…

— Ben H. Winters

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted…

— Ben H. Winters

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

— Ben H. Winters

“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully”

— Ben H. Winters

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have…

— Ben H. Winters

“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to…

— Ben H. Winters

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or…

— Ben H. Winters

We spend so much time, these days, on forms of literature that don't rise to be literature, and I'm speaking about Twitter…

— Ben H. Winters

“He books it into that little playground there. I mean the guy is zooming like the Road Runner, skidding through the gravel…

— Ben H. Winters

“She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be…

— Ben H. Winters

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts…

— Ben H. Winters

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and…

— Ben H. Winters

“At lunch yesterday, McGully told us a story he heard, where the husband and wife were out for a walk in White…

— Ben H. Winters

“What she was doing was, she was letting it be his idea. She was walking him along, holding his hand tightly enough…

— Ben H. Winters

“Difficult does not mean impossible. Everything can happen. Everything is possible.”

— Ben H. Winters

One thing we've learned about Donald Trump - this candidate first, president-elect, and now president - is that he has this sort…

— Ben H. Winters

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

— Ben H. Winters

“But the area where Father Barton had taken out two hundred bucks on Sunday afternoon - there was some pigmentation down there,…

— Ben H. Winters

Our political divides have become our personal divides.

— Ben H. Winters

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even…

— Ben H. Winters