Quotes by Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Art

Natural

Trying

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

Book

Integrity

Moving

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

Art

Moving

Profound

Everything’s weird if you stare at it.

Ifs

Staring

I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I work very much in idiom and am very interested in the play of different kinds of rhetoric, whether it is the more high-flown stuff that reeks of age. I love to juxtapose something like that with something more current or urgent. I am always interested not in America by itself, but America as an idea and how that idea has changed over time, in the eyes of the rest of the world and in the eyes of Americans.

Age

Different

Eye

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

Bars

Energy

Weariness

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

Cliffs

Cocaine

Rappelling

I had a teacher once who said, “If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry.” I have always been interested in the writers who care about their sentences and who really work on that level. I have always said that I hate writing, I love revision. So, the language is really important to me. And the comedy and the horror that come out of the language.

Hate

Teacher

Writing

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

Lessons

Live Life

Retreat

I’d become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody’s error in judgement.

Errors

Mistake

Office

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Age

Art

Bars

Bathing

Believe

Book

Bullshit

Bus

Cake

Children

Citizens

Cliffs

Cocaine

Coconuts

Coffee

College

Country

Couple

Different

Dream

Emotion

Empathy

Ends

Energy

Errors

Eye

Facts

Feelings

Fiction

Guy

Hate

Hollywood

Home

Honor

Ifs

Insight

Integrity

Interesting

Kids

Knows

Language

Lessons

Live Life

Mean

Mistake

Morning

Moving

Music Is

Names

Natural

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Quotes by Sam Lipsyte

Sam Lipsyte

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

Everything’s weird if you stare at it.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

I’d become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody’s error in judgement.

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