Leonard Michaels Quotes
- Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.
- Self-confidence can be crippling.
- Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.
- There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.
- The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The…
- I can only gesture at what makes a story good.
- There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.
- Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.
- I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.
- Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.
- Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
- Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.