Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Discouraged Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around. — Robert Boswell Passion Copy Share Image
We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It… — Robert Boswell About Copy Share Image
Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others. — Robert Boswell Character Copy Share Image
You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say… — Robert Boswell Actions Copy Share Image
“Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop… — Robert Boswell Actors Copy Share Image
“The rain began to fall harder, and it distracted him, but he tried to pull himself back because he felt on the… — Robert Boswell Character Copy Share Image
“The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.” — Robert Boswell Children Copy Share Image
I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating… — Robert Boswell Books Copy Share Image
I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the… — Robert Boswell Guess Copy Share Image
“Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
“Now and then I try to revive the old blood with Cheryl the way a miser sticks dead batteries in the radio… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Discouraged Copy Share Image
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures… — Robert Boswell Covering Copy Share Image
I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not… — Robert Boswell Decent Copy Share Image
What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility? — Robert Boswell Black Copy Share Image
