Menaker Quotes

#1. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.

Daniel Menaker

#2. My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

Erma Bombeck

#3. He had no trust in his own judgement any more, but there was no one else to rely on.

Catherine O'Flynn

#4. It would be more honest than this Olympian distance you maintain.

Daniel Menaker

#5. I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#6. I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#7. Not seeking acknowledgment for things done well but finding satisfaction in doing them well.

Daniel Menaker

#8. Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

Bob Hope

#9. There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson