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Steven Millhauser quotes: Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

Steven Millhauser quotes: I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.

I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.

Steven Millhauser quotes: Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Steven Millhauser quotes: His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

Steven Millhauser quotes: Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

Steven Millhauser quotes: Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.

Steven Millhauser quotes: We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Steven Millhauser quotes: I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own

I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own weight.

Steven Millhauser quotes: If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

Steven Millhauser quotes: I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

Steven Millhauser quotes: I am often tired. I am sometimes discouraged. I am always sure.

I am often tired. I am sometimes discouraged. I am always sure.

Steven Millhauser quotes: The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.

The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.

Steven Millhauser quotes: I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

Steven Millhauser quotes: I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

Steven Millhauser quotes: I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.

I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.

Steven Millhauser quotes: We are happy to be here, where the sky has always seemed a little bluer, the leaves a little greener, than in other towns we know.

We are happy to be here, where the sky has always seemed a little bluer, the leaves a little greener, than in other towns we know.

Steven Millhauser quotes: If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.

Steven Millhauser quotes: All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Steven Millhauser quotes: Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?

Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?

Steven Millhauser quotes: God pity the poor novelist.

God pity the poor novelist.