28 Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes for You to Enjoy

Stacey D'Erasmo

American Novelist

Born: 1961

Between Life Love Me Time You

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings. Stacey D'Erasmo

Me Complexities Struggles Joys Messy Contradictions Human Human Beings Interests Beings

A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year. Stacey D'Erasmo

Time Day Family You Every Day People Year Band Living Every Touring Up Same Same Time Choose Workplace Necessarily

That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form. Stacey D'Erasmo

You can get anything online, including things that don't even exist. We've invented our own collective unconscious. The normal rules of time and space don't apply. It's held together by some other force than gravity. It's endless. It's like some unimaginably huge, messy novel that's writing itself both with and without us. Stacey D'Erasmo

Time You Together Writing Space Collective Own Other Our Rules Some Invented Online Both Unconscious Like Force Messy Without Time And Space Exist Normal Huge Itself Than Get Endless Anything Us Held Even Novel Including Things Gravity Apply

A performer needs and craves a live audience. Stacey D'Erasmo

Needs Live Live Audience Performer Audience Craves

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. Stacey D'Erasmo

Beautiful Perspective Lost Ambition Hell Group Every Back Once Bit Out Thousand About Ten Scene Emotional Writes She Does Souls Saints Impression Debut Impulse Hold Fleeting Pages Moment Novel Nearly Desire

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less. Stacey D'Erasmo

Time Phones Matter Digital Cell Phones Telling Seem More Computers Clocks Than Cell Any Screen Available Less Ever Second

One of the many pleasures of 'Versailles' is the way in which it seems to emanate not only from the vexed inner being of Marie Antoinette but from the interstices between what we imagine of her and what she was. Stacey D'Erasmo

Way Emanate Pleasures Seems Only Between She Versailles Being Which Many Her Inner Marie Marie Antoinette Imagine

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads. Stacey D'Erasmo

Time Worth Indeed Invented Only Weight Remembering Since Know Most Around Been Clock Nostalgic Century Us Standardized Railroads

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge. Stacey D'Erasmo

Discipline Punk Enough Embarrassed Never Had Reveal Stamina Cool

While 'A Blessed Child' might have been a more tough-minded book had Ullmann thrown a spanner into the works, it's not hard to understand her decision to keep things going. Stacey D'Erasmo

Book Decision Blessed More Thrown Had Understand Been Child Going While Might Hard Works Keep Her Things

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space. Stacey D'Erasmo

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them. Stacey D'Erasmo

As lightly toned by reality as the women on 'Sex and the City,' the bold, soigne characters on 'The L Word' suggest that L is also for limerence, that rapturous state of early love when the entire world is glowing and delectable. Stacey D'Erasmo