Dara Horn Professions : Novelist Born : 1977 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Dara Horn Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future. Dara Horn memories children past The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come. Dara Horn iron bridges running Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul. Dara Horn mean book thinking Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness. Dara Horn deeds kindness Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you. Dara Horn fellows agree love-you And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think. Dara Horn mother people thinking Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world. Dara Horn know you legacy world I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time. Dara Horn hope faith work time My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies. Dara Horn spies parents were theory I think all parents have a double life. Dara Horn double parents think life The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it. Dara Horn problems you challenges children Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past. Dara Horn god bible remember past Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found. Dara Horn memory events faith past I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true. Dara Horn my-life social-media media life The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea. Dara Horn suspense important way ideas I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story. Dara Horn i-am story think matter Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction. Dara Horn relationships see you sibling I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. Dara Horn i-am know you artist Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
