Ben Lerner Quotes
- I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
- Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.
- Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves…
- If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and…
- The scare quotes burn off like fog.
- What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in…
- I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose,…
- I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.