Harold Brodkey Quotes
1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.
Harold Brodkey (2011). “Stories in an Almost Classical Mode”, p.287, Vintage
Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in The Scotsman, 29 Jan1996.
My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.
Harold Brodkey (2013). “Women and Angels: Stories”, p.26, Open Road Media
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.
1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death