Air Quote by Norman Rush

“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of…

— Norman Rush

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out…

— Norman Rush

“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you…

— Norman Rush

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is…

— Norman Rush

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody…

— Norman Rush

“Now everything was going to be impossible, but better.”

— Norman Rush

“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of…

— Norman Rush

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

— Norman Rush

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

— Norman Rush