Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
“Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.” Ben Marcus
“Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.” Ben Marcus
“Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I’d said that, how many times I’d meant it, how many times Claire … Read More
“Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s … Read More
“Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I’ve always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.” … Read More
“I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.” Ben Marcus
“I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O’Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.” Ben Marcus
“Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.” Ben Marcus
“Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.” Ben Marcus
“A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.” Ben Marcus
“My first book, ‘The Age of Wire and String,’ came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.” Ben Marcus
“Being with him was like being alone underwater – everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold … Read More
“Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.” Ben Marcus
“A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.” Ben Marcus
“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is … Read More
“When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I’ve come to realise that my writing is very … Read More
“To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can … Read More
“Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed … Read More
“Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of … Read More
“RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds … Read More
“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes … Read More