Stephen Wright Quotes

#1. I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

#2. The subterranean lair of the wily human relationship: a dark maze of pop-up demons, fun house mirrors, spooky dead ends, multiple false bottoms.

Stephen Wright

#3. She felt an unexpected pang of homesickness (or was it some physical complaint?) and suddenly remembered that it was her mother's birthday today or tomorrow or sometime last week.

Stephen Wright

#4. Families were bunk, temporary and uneasy alliances of strangers who would hate each other less without the coercion of blood, the spiraling bonds of genetic ivy holding its victims fast to a blasted tree.

Stephen Wright

#5. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, How to Build a Boat.

Stephen Wright

#6. If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Stephen Wright

#7. Outside the windows, the land was as flat, as interesting, as the head of an anvil, and the shadows of the corn advanced like the rifle barrels of an approaching army.

Stephen Wright