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
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.
writing
When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.
wisdom art powerful
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.
dream children being-alone
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
understanding use example
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.