Top 9 Quotes by Norman Rush

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Talking, Humanity, Literature

"Botswana Blues: Orgies of talk in Africa" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. June 02, 2003.

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.

Norman Rush

School, Devil, Events

Norman Rush (2013). “Mating”, p.193, Granta Books

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.

Norman Rush

Heartbreak, Hair, Way

Norman Rush (2013). “Mating”, p.16, Granta Books

Small breasts are best for the long haul.

Norman Rush

Long, Breasts, Long Haul

Norman Rush (2014). “Mortals”, p.19, Granta Books

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

Norman Rush

Writing, Character, Plot

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

Norman Rush

Wanted

Norman Rush (2013). “Mating”, p.217, Granta Books

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

Norman Rush

Encouragement, Kind, Novel

It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

Norman Rush

Growing Up, Fighting, Magic

Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books