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Norman Rush is an American writer renowned for his novels that often explore the complexities and cultural conflicts of Africa. His works are celebrated for their profound psychological insights and delicate portrayal of human emotions.

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Famous Norman Rush Quotes

“Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.”

Love Relationships Marriage Comedy Intimacy Spouses Roseanne

Book:Mating

Source: Mating

“...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.”

Happens School Individual Century Events Devil Timing Heresy Madhouses

Book:Mating

Source: Mating

“I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.”

Character Bigs Novel Written Air Breathe

Author: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 of my hair.”

Way Feels Stills Hair Heartbreak Flood Seaweed Deluge

Book:Mating

Source: Mating

“It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.”

Age Together Fighting Fantasy Growing Up Growing Imagine Magic Goes On Standards Old Age Beloved Get Together Back In Time Wavering Go Back In Time

Book:Subtle Bodies

Source: Subtle Bodies

“Small breasts are best for the long haul.”

Long Breasts Haul Long Haul

Book:Mortals

Source: Mortals

“The characters write the plot. Their natures do.”

Writing Character Plot

Author:Norman Rush

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

Wanted

Book:Mating

Source: Mating

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

Kind Novel Reader Encouragement

Author:Norman Rush

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”

Humanity Literature Talking

Author:Norman Rush

About the Author

Born: October 24, 1933
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 10

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