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
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.
writing
When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.
time men age
Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.
rights ideas bills
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
rights ideas bills
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
reading men mind
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.