Book Quote by Gary Lutz

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.

— Gary Lutz

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for…

— Gary Lutz

“Because some days the world holds true at the drop of a hat, don't you find? Things favor themselves: whatever you reach for -…

— Gary Lutz

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

— Gary Lutz

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces…

— Gary Lutz

Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with…

— Gary Lutz

“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.”

— Gary Lutz

Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I…

— Gary Lutz

There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any…

— Gary Lutz

I've been within an inch of my life.

— Gary Lutz

I was a great many far cries from myself.

— Gary Lutz