Norman Rush Quotes

• Literature is humanity talking to itself.

  Norman Rush

  Talking, Humanity, Literature

  "Botswana Blues: Orgies of talk in Africa" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. June 02, 2003.

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• ...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.

  Norman Rush

  School, Devil, Events

  Norman Rush (2013). “Mating”, p.193, Granta Books

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• 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.

  Norman Rush

  Heartbreak, Hair, Way

  Norman Rush (2013). “Mating”, p.16, Granta Books

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• Small breasts are best for the long haul.

  Norman Rush

  Long, Breasts, Long Haul

  Norman Rush (2014). “Mortals”, p.19, Granta Books

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• The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

  Norman Rush

  Writing, Character, Plot

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

  Norman Rush

  Wanted

  Norman Rush (2013). “Mating”, p.217, Granta Books

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

  Norman Rush

  Encouragement, Kind, Novel

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• 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.

  Norman Rush

  Growing Up, Fighting, Magic

  Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books

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• 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.

  Norman Rush

  Character, Air, Breathe

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