Best Roger Rosenblatt Quotes
- The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief. Belief
- Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a… Anticipation
- Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. Alone
- Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you. Death
- I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about… All
- The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure… Clump
- Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect… Actual
- No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of… Attached