The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.

Edith Pearlman

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It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and un... by Edith Pearlman

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

unnoticed important quiet

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I thr... by Edith Pearlman

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

sentences hours

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

reading drinking book

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

important life long believe

I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society te... by Edith Pearlman

I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.

know single society people

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdo... by Edith Pearlman

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

write come some someone

I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

always warm space years

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of... by Edith Pearlman

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

view aging future past

There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.

alone day life long

Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the p... by Edith Pearlman

Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

memory mute written prison

I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

loved always luck literature

I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.

good think you mistake

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

small always creative life

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. by Edith Pearlman

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

saul lived corner around

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

beyond publish ambition book

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

post building architecture sometimes

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

well language natural world

In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.

high mission late work