At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you… — Steve Almond Be proud Copy Share Image
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is… — Steve Almond Giving Copy Share Image
I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the… — Steve Almond Addiction Copy Share Image
“Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse… — Steve Almond Music Copy Share Image
“This is what songs do, even dumb pop songs: they remind us that emotions are not an inconvenient and vaguely embarrassing aspect… — Steve Almond Business Copy Share Image
A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself… — Steve Almond Bigs Copy Share Image
People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for… — Steve Almond Crushed Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Book Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Affliction Copy Share Image
Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what… — Steve Almond Dad Copy Share Image
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to… — Steve Almond Beauty Copy Share Image
“But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up .” — Steve Almond Hope Copy Share Image
Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. — Steve Almond Beautiful Copy Share Image
“This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and… — Steve Almond Jealousy Copy Share Image
“My own kind. I'm not sure there's a name for us. I suspect we're born this way: our hearts screwed in tight,… — Steve Almond Born this way Copy Share Image
There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And… — Steve Almond Army Copy Share Image
“The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become… — Steve Almond Storytelling Copy Share Image
“In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from… — Steve Almond Internet Copy Share Image
Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football… — Steve Almond Community Copy Share Image
Americans seem to be living in a state of fear about the world, one that just keeps intensifying. I mean, look at… — Steve Almond Car Copy Share Image
“The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.” — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“I suppose I was aware, in an abstract way, that there were men and women upon this earth who served in this… — Steve Almond Life Copy Share Image
At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the… — Steve Almond Age Copy Share Image
