Richard Eder Quotes
- Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it…
- A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
- In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
- Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.
- Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
- This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp…