When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing. Roger Rosenblatt More Quotes by Roger Rosenblatt More Quotes From Roger Rosenblatt The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails. Roger Rosenblatt backcaregodbelieve I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it. Roger Rosenblatt daymehatelove Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes. Roger Rosenblatt eyescoldpoetrylife No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil. Roger Rosenblatt goodgood-and-evilpassionevil
