Air Quote by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“Yet when we do manage to create ourselves anew, isn’t there always a suspicion that the new identity fits over the old like a…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“Real, she imagined later on, was something else; it had nothing to do with things you could touch. Real was being seen, noticed, acknowledged,…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“She'd been prepared for him to say he was too old, she must put away that sweet but impractical idea, they would forget all…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“How did she do it, I'd always wondered. Dancing with Q., I understood. Once in a while the pain falls asleep on the job,…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz