Gary Lutz famous quotes

04-17-2025

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
-- Gary Lutz

#Dollars #Cost #Problem
Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.
-- Gary Lutz

#Lying #Simple #Night
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.
-- Gary Lutz

#Nice #Book #Years
What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.
-- Gary Lutz
My writing isnâ€™t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.
-- Gary Lutz

#Writing #Dark #Careers
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
-- Gary Lutz

#Might #Matter #Wheels
You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.
-- Gary Lutz

#Tired #Youth #Wonder
It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.
-- Gary Lutz

#Mother #Mean #Mirrors
I've been within an inch of my life.
-- Gary Lutz

#Inches
I was a great many far cries from myself.
-- Gary Lutz

#Cry #Great Men
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.
-- Gary Lutz

#Grace #Daze #Nervous

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