Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.