Darin Strauss

Quotes

• “After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years w...”
• “What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained li...”
• “I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese ...”
• “The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people a...”
• “At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomforta...”
• “I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem bot...”
• “The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same ...”
• “The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.”
• “All writers have their own pet commandments.”