Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience. — Phillip Lopate Books Copy Share Image
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion… — Phillip Lopate Books Copy Share Image
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort. — Phillip Lopate Effort Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work. — Phillip Lopate Able Copy Share Image
Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children… — Phillip Lopate Adults Copy Share Image
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at… — Phillip Lopate Engaged Copy Share Image
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of… — Phillip Lopate Big cities Copy Share Image
“Fornicating is like parenting: no matter how you do it, you have the guilty sense that somewhere other people are doing it… — Phillip Lopate Parenting Copy Share Image
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of… — Phillip Lopate Fun Copy Share Image
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give… — Phillip Lopate Body Copy Share Image
Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run… — Phillip Lopate Clubs Copy Share Image
... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or… — Phillip Lopate Convinced Copy Share Image
“we who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as… — Phillip Lopate Closest friends Copy Share Image
For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority. — Phillip Lopate Broads Copy Share Image
“…Maybe it’s the fault of our language but dreams are innocent and pictorial. Then let our dreams speak for us side by… — Phillip Lopate Dreams Copy Share Image
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like… — Phillip Lopate Defective Copy Share Image
You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel. — Phillip Lopate Books Copy Share Image
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life,… — Phillip Lopate Age Copy Share Image
Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism… — Phillip Lopate Challenges Copy Share Image
The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them. — Phillip Lopate Desirable Copy Share Image
My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't… — Phillip Lopate Accused Copy Share Image
“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by… — Phillip Lopate Identity Copy Share Image
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than… — Phillip Lopate Beach Copy Share Image
I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations. — Phillip Lopate Expectations Copy Share Image
