“Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days,… — Steve Almond Fitness Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As… — Steve Almond Different Copy Share Image
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. — Steve Almond Book Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Bias Copy Share Image
To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes… — Steve Almond Education Copy Share Image
Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards.… — Steve Almond Able Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons I hate Hollywood so much is that they portray the travails of teen life as so innocuous and… — Steve Almond Business Copy Share Image
“This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to… — Steve Almond Bad decisions Copy Share Image
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief. — Steve Almond Anger Copy Share Image
I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent… — Steve Almond Candy Copy Share Image
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a… — Steve Almond Artistic Copy Share Image
Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after… — Steve Almond Bunch Copy Share Image
Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen… — Steve Almond Book Copy Share Image
Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be. — Steve Almond Idiot Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where… — Steve Almond Bed Copy Share Image
I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me.… — Steve Almond Action Copy Share Image
“God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing… — Steve Almond Dreams Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who… — Steve Almond Hope Copy Share Image
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to… — Steve Almond Certain Copy Share Image
It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. — Steve Almond Broken Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell… — Steve Almond Acclaim Copy Share Image
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy… — Steve Almond Accepting Copy Share Image
A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are… — Steve Almond Approval Copy Share Image
Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable!… — Steve Almond Amusement Copy Share Image
Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods. — Steve Almond Football Copy Share Image
