Gardening Quote by Daniel Mendelsohn

I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“As ingenious as this explanation is, it seems to me to miss entirely the emotional significance of the text- its beautiful and beautifully economical…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young woman, someone’s…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

In the pre-Internet age you had to find gay things - or things that were slightly radioactive with erotic interest. You had to go…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately,…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel and your…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen…

— Daniel Mendelsohn