--- title: "2 Michelle Herman Quotes - Famous Writer (Dog)" description: "Michelle Herman is an American writer and Professor Emerita of English at Ohio State University. Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which Worl..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b089/author-michelle-herman-111888.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Michelle Herman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b089/author-michelle-herman-111888.jpg) # Michelle Herman (1955) Writer United States **2** quotes in **25** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Michelle Herman is a writer from the United States, best known for *Dog*. ## Quick Facts About Michelle Herman Born March 9, 1955 Nationality United States Profession Writer Notable works Dog ## About Michelle Herman Michelle Herman is an American writer and Professor Emerita of English at Ohio State University. Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which WorldCat shows in 545 libraries and has been translated into multiple languages. She has also written the novel Missing, which was awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction, and Close-Up, which won the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. Her most recent book is the memoir-in-essays If You Say So. She is married to the painter Glen Holland. They have a daughter. ## Quotes by Michelle Herman > [I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-herman/i-do-triage-on-everything-that-comes-through-the-door-and-if-it-s-not/) Michelle Herman [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17a/michelle-herman-111888_deserve_i-do-triage-on-everything-that-comes-thr_108689.png) > [She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-herman/she-had-not-made-a-decision-to-give-up-sex-only-the-clamor-of-romance/) Michelle Herman [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43b/michelle-herman-111888_clamor_she-had-not-made-a-decision-to-give-up-s_2752884.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-herman/#itemlist", "name": "Michelle Herman Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something that deserves to be saved for posterity, it's discarded. 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