Quotes by : Renata Adler

Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized....

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing....

Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then....

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.....

Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident.....

There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live....

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.