Being Quote by Roger Rosenblatt

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and…

— Roger Rosenblatt

“Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

— Roger Rosenblatt

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of…

— Roger Rosenblatt

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

— Roger Rosenblatt

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

— Roger Rosenblatt

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

— Roger Rosenblatt

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind…

— Roger Rosenblatt

For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war…

— Roger Rosenblatt

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions…

— Roger Rosenblatt

If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems…

— Roger Rosenblatt

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

— Roger Rosenblatt