Ben H. Winters

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and…

— Ben H. Winters

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

“Beautifully indeed! But she does everything well. Have you seen her peel a banana? It is like listening to a symphony.”

— Ben H. Winters

I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a…

— Ben H. Winters

“It's an attempted murder. It's a suicide, but you're attempting to make it seem like a murder.”

— Ben H. Winters

“He's weeping, his face dissolving in his hands. It's exhausting. People hiding behind the asteroid, like it's an excuse for poor conduct,…

— Ben H. Winters

“Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance and extravagance of her table, and all her domestic arrangements; she loved to surprise English…

— Ben H. Winters

“It’s like you walk into a dark room, and there’s a sliver of pale light under a doorway on the opposite side.…

— Ben H. Winters

“Never have I know spirits so low they could not be raised by hearing of a Frenchman eaten by a shark!”

— Ben H. Winters

“...people have layers in them. People go down deep. They go all the way down.”

— Ben H. Winters

We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African…

— Ben H. Winters

I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that…

— Ben H. Winters

“Respectfully, sir, the asteroid did not make you leave her. The asteroid is not making anyone do anything. It's just a big…

— Ben H. Winters

I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has…

— Ben H. Winters

A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer…

— Ben H. Winters

The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist…

— Ben H. Winters

The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think.…

— Ben H. Winters

“This is today. More plans are in motions. More ideas are in play.”

— Ben H. Winters

“Time makes things worse. Bad is faster than good. Wickedness is a weed and does not wither on its own. It grows…

— Ben H. Winters

“Because a promise is a promise, Officer Cavatone, and civilization is just a bunch of promises, that’s all it is. A mortgage,…

— Ben H. Winters

“The dream that I've been having, about my high-school sweetheart, is not really about my high-school sweetheart, when you get right down…

— Ben H. Winters