The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Animal Copy Share Image
Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Complete Copy Share Image
“There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Silence Copy Share Image
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Apartment Copy Share Image
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Begins Copy Share Image
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. — Jean Hanff Korelitz About Copy Share Image
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Alive Copy Share Image
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Brilliant Copy Share Image
“I know it’s supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Children Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Acute Copy Share Image
I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth… — Jean Hanff Korelitz About Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Adversity Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Actually Copy Share Image
Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a… — Jean Hanff Korelitz About Copy Share Image
“If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Wrong person Copy Share Image
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Am Copy Share Image
The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Both Copy Share Image
You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who… — Jean Hanff Korelitz About Copy Share Image
“All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Ghost stories Copy Share Image
“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Depression Copy Share Image
“Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough,… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Achievement Copy Share Image
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Best Copy Share Image
When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Being Copy Share Image
Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Amendment Copy Share Image
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Make Copy Share Image
“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Class Copy Share Image
I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up. — Jean Hanff Korelitz City Copy Share Image
“Pick the wrong person and it doesn’t matter how much you want to fix your marriage. It won’t work.” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Marriage Copy Share Image
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Books Copy Share Image
Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Actor Copy Share Image
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Allied Copy Share Image
Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Always Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Assistant Copy Share Image
I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of… — Jean Hanff Korelitz After Copy Share Image
I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz About Copy Share Image
“if you’re paying attention, if your eyes and your ears and your mind are open, as they should be open. You can… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Psychology Copy Share Image
“Grace had read that the Spenser children followed a strictly macrobiotic diet—or that ultimate manifestation of New York real estate porn, the… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Real estate Copy Share Image
“Teammates...were fine things. Piling onto the bus before the game, edgy with shared nerves, egging one another on with the genial, meaningless… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Cotton candy Copy Share Image
