He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
Dennis LehaneIt's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
Dennis LehaneVisitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochodaโs voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet itโs indelibly her own.
Dennis LehaneNarrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
Dennis LehaneIt had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.
Dennis LehaneIf you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane personโs actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. Itโs a no-win situation. Itโs a death penalty really.
Dennis Lehane