Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblattis an American writer. He was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour. He writes books, and is the Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
children war kids
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.
death suicide women
Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.
children school brain
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
past too-much remember
Live in the past, but don't remember too much.
gun weapons fit
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.
country war home
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.
self monsters persons
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.
death real important
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.
wind advancement blame
Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.
uncles scrooge may
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.
writing emotion cry
If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.
moving moving-in saved
Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved
life morning moving
The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.
friendship winter light
Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.