Edith Pearlman Quotes

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being, " she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam, ' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.