Beauty Quote by Michelle Dean

There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are.

— Michelle Dean

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

— Michelle Dean

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

— Michelle Dean

When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the…

— Michelle Dean

Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast…

— Michelle Dean

I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct.

— Michelle Dean

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

— Michelle Dean

There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.

— Michelle Dean

Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide…

— Michelle Dean

Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a…

— Michelle Dean

In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be prestige shows.

— Michelle Dean

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

— Michelle Dean