Herbert Gold
Herbert Gold
Herbert Goldis an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 March 1924
CountryUnited States of America
Herbert Gold quotes about
together conformity rebellion
Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
american-author angel anybody body hustler internal scribbling traffic wondering writer
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.
hurt childhood bird
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
eye artist imagination
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.
flower honey bees
The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
eye moon light
Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.
sound human-nature bad-jokes
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.
dream challenges humanity
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.
strong men looks
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
eye blood ears
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.
elderly age different
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
art family-love community
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
paper crafts occupation
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
mean writing important
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really want to write, writing has to take precedence over everything else, except for taking care of your loved ones. It has to be more important than any possession, more important than fame. We hear about just a few writers who get famous, but most of them don't. It's got to mean more than that.