Leonard Michaels famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Cat #Animal #Shy
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Apples #Long #Lust
Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Stars #Believe #Ocean
I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Species
Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Littles #Clarity #Mystery
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Example #World #Accounting
I can only gesture at what makes a story good.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Teaching #Stories #Gestures
Self-confidence can be crippling.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Self Confidence #Self #Crafts
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Men #Phones #Typewriters
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Song #Singing #Stories
There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Literature #Triangles #Crafts
Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Attitude #Stories #Crafts
Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.
-- Leonard Michaels

#Sex #Mean #Romance

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