Quotes by : Steven Millhauser

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving....

But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the....

Was there a turn, a change in the atmosphere? To single out a particular moment is to distort the record,....

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world....

As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising....

Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing....