Author: Nathan Englander

Quotes

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?'

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?'

- Nathan Englander

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

- Nathan Englander

I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.

I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.

- Nathan Englander

I'm very interested in how people change.

I'm very interested in how people change.

- Nathan Englander

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day for so many years.

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day for so many years.

- Nathan Englander

I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But can't Gaza feel the same way? Personally, I'm frozen in time.

I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But can't Gaza feel the same way? Personally, I'm frozen in time.

- Nathan Englander

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition.

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition.

- Nathan Englander

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