Tanzer's Quotes

#1. A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

Laird Barron

#2. She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.

Anonymous

#3. All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#4. You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage.

Jacob Hoye

#5. This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom.

Stephen Graham Jones

#6. I'm inclined to like people who listen to me.

Molly Tanzer

#7. It's never too early to think about your legacy," she would say. "Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?

Ben Tanzer

#8. When somebody wants to write an article attacking a scoring system or the influence of wine writers, who's right in the cross hairs? It's not Steve Tanzer, it's not Marvin Shanken, it's me. These other people, it's not like they don't have some influence, and I'm more than happy to share it.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#9. A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#10. He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He "knows" whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.

Primo Levi

#11. Hey hey Susan Day have you killed any kids today?

Stephen King

#12. Her toolbox is full. She has learned to not let go of the pieces of herself that she needs in order to be what someone else wants. She's learned not to compromise. She's learned not to settle. She's learned, as difficult as it is, how to be her own sun.

Shonda Rhimes

#13. Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason- Holly was getting close to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true.

Sarah Dunn

#14. The bigger you feel things, the more curious you are; and the more problems you want to solve and not actually run from, the better everything is, even the things you already love.

Ben Tanzer

#15. It's difficult to focus on my studies when my best friend is struggling to get through the hour."
He hesitated. "So I'm your best friend now?"
My cheeks heated, and I shrugged. "It was between you and Sarit, and you have the piano. She just has honey.

Jodi Meadows