Quotes About Dolnick

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on you; at least you can say that you're halfway through and know that this maps onto some clear, visualizable chunk of narrative.

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.