“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through… — David Wroblewski Answers Copy Share Image
“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second -- for half… — David Wroblewski Grief Copy Share Image
“You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very… — David Wroblewski Big Copy Share Image
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd… — David Wroblewski Apple trees Copy Share Image
“In her life, she'd been nourished and sustained by certain things, him being one of them, Trudy another, and Edgar, the third… — David Wroblewski Life Copy Share Image
“I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at… — David Wroblewski Heaven hell Copy Share Image
“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.” — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“Henry turned to give Edgar a look—a meaningful look—though Edgar couldn’t be sure exactly what its meaning was. It struck him again… — David Wroblewski Bad news Copy Share Image
“He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new… — David Wroblewski Childhood Copy Share Image
I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career… — David Wroblewski About Copy Share Image
“Edgar, do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? There's no… — David Wroblewski Grief Copy Share Image
When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to… — David Wroblewski Boys Copy Share Image
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something… — David Wroblewski Abandoned Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your… — David Wroblewski Death Copy Share Image
“If you didn't like it, why didn't you quit?" To do what? Wasn't anything I knew better than farming. I was cursed,… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up.… — David Wroblewski Baby Copy Share Image
“Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.” — David Wroblewski Fate Copy Share Image
“And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can… — David Wroblewski About Copy Share Image
“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why...… — David Wroblewski Life Copy Share Image
“Some things were certain - they had already happened - but the future could not be divined. Perhaps by Ida Paine. For… — David Wroblewski Life Copy Share Image
“...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?” — David Wroblewski Death Copy Share Image
“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there… — David Wroblewski Change Copy Share Image
Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive.… — David Wroblewski Accidents Copy Share Image
