Jay Parini

“A horse,” he once said, “is the symbol of the rider’s soul.”

— Jay Parini

“All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.”

— Jay Parini

“It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to…

— Jay Parini

“This is my commandment,” Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, “That you love one another, as I have loved you”…

— Jay Parini

“Believe me, if you’re a teenager, you’re always in the damned woods. Literally, you’re in the woods — probably too much you’re…

— Jay Parini

“In dreams begin possibilities.”

— Jay Parini

“...and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers…

— Jay Parini

“Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.”

— Jay Parini

“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student…

— Jay Parini

“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way…

— Jay Parini

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini