Bruce Joel Rubin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  • All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

  • Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

  • White in the moon the long road lies.

  • Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

  • The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  • I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  • I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

  • When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

  • I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.