Robert-mccrum Quotes

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For...

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three o...

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex...

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's the...