“If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.” IfsNeedsThreeChosenAdjectives Author:Roger Rosenblatt
“If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'” IfsFirstsMaySelfKnownOughtCallingTruth IsExcuseFocusedFlawsMisfitsSad Truth Author: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 in some way inure itself against the emotion.” IfsWayWritingActorsEmotionAudienceStageCry Author:Roger Rosenblatt
“Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.” IfsThinkingMeanSaidLawHouseHavensNew YorkArmsBearsProveGunAbsolutesCongressBritishViolentAmendmentsDiminishSecond AmendmentRight To Bear Arms Author:Roger Rosenblatt
“The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.” IfsArtIdeasHardWisdomPassionPowerfulEmotionShapesStructureUrgentInsistenceArt And Life Author:Roger Rosenblatt
“If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.” IfsMenMindMayEnoughHappensReadingLibraryEnough Time Author:Roger Rosenblatt
