Edith Pearlman

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

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

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

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.