Adults Quote by Phillip Lopate

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

— Phillip Lopate

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

— Phillip Lopate

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

— Phillip Lopate

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

— Phillip Lopate

In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The…

— Phillip Lopate

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

— Phillip Lopate

“Fornicating is like parenting: no matter how you do it, you have the guilty sense that somewhere other people are doing it more correctly.”

— Phillip Lopate

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

— Phillip Lopate

“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of than taking…

— Phillip Lopate

I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a…

— Phillip Lopate

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some…

— Phillip Lopate

... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act…

— Phillip Lopate