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
“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 Comforting Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Accomplices Copy Share Image
Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion. — Steve Almond Cult 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
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
There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers — Steve Almond Candy 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
We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t… — Steve Almond Business 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
“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
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
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
“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
“In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from… — Steve Almond Distraction 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
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
Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she… — Steve Almond Arise 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
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Book Copy Share Image
“If You Can Stand It, Play the Long Game . . . What I mean here is that you have to remain… — Steve Almond Day by day 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
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
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
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
Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their… — Steve Almond Coaches 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 Narrative Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Art 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 Chocolate 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
