Frederic Tuten Professions : Novelist Born : December 2, 1936 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Frederic Tuten Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. Frederic Tuten contemporary-fiction depth stories Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair. Frederic Tuten years-ago affair years I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing. Frederic Tuten problem culture thinking When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book. Frederic Tuten editors writing book Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture. Frederic Tuten house people years If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal. Frederic Tuten dark animal thinking Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe. Frederic Tuten poetry-is said way Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
