Quotes by Jerome Charyn - Page 1

Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.
Jerome Charyn /
Lincoln
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I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.
Jerome Charyn /
Malice
Melodrama
Ruined
Life My Life I Can
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What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
Jerome Charyn /
Bronx
Curious
Petty
South Bronx
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We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.
Jerome Charyn /
Beauties
Represent
Extended
Movie Stars
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I dreamed my way into Lincoln and the details that moved me - his lack of education or 'civilized' manners and his deep connection to all humankind.
Jerome Charyn /
Civilized
Humankind
Manners
Connection
Dreamed
Lincoln
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Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.
Jerome Charyn /
Admire
Invisible
Void
Lifetimes
Virtually
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Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.
Jerome Charyn /
Disturbed
Emily
Thunder
Life Music Heart
Readers
Steal
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I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
Jerome Charyn /
Abraham
Beard
Disturbing
Grey
Monstrosity
Eyes Believe I Believe
Lincoln
Musicians
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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
Jerome Charyn /
Abraham
Persona
Sly
White House
Neutral
Confident
Reporter
Inhabit
Lincoln
Origins
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Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
Jerome Charyn /
Crush
Emily
Heroic
Landscape
Persona
Solitude
Tales
Discovered
Grade
Haunted
Inner
Seventh
Startling
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Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.
Jerome Charyn /
Accepted
Clever
Art Music Always
Drew
Iii
In The End
Painted
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'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'
Jerome Charyn /
Doomed
Flood
Huckleberry
Orchard
Rude
Tennessee
Fat
Huckleberry Finn
Mccarthy
Reads
River
Startling
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Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.
Jerome Charyn /
Green
Melancholy
White House
Begun
Holding
Lincoln
Preserved
Unravel
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'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal.
Jerome Charyn /
Angel
Angelic
Battle
Demonic
Epic
Gifted
Gore
Narcissism
Poet
Relentless
Sides
Empire
Jay
Novelist
Portrait
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