Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father’s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Father

Long

Would Be

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Office

Special

Writing

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare’s way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Catholic

Ghost

Way

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne’s essays translated by John Florio. That’s probably my most precious possession.

Beautiful

Precious Possessions

Wife

Poems are difficult to silence.

Difficult

Silence

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

Exercise

Reason

Specialists

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance – and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig – is to understand the nature of the occasion.

Dancing

Successful

Writing

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

Obstacles

Pain

Pleasure

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that’s attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Behinds

Left Behind

Names

There’s a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don’t know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote “The Diaries of Adam and Eve.” He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I’m thinking and writing about.

Saint

Thinking

Writing

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Art

Beautiful

Behinds

Believe

Black And White

Body

Book

Broken

Care

Catholic

Copies

Couple

Dancing

Difficult

Dirty

Eruption

Exercise

Falling In Love

Father

Firsts

Force

Ghost

Ginsberg

Giving

House

Howl

Interest

Knights

Knows

Latin

Left Behind

Legacy

Library

Lifetime

Listening To Music

Literature

Long

Matter

Men

Moments

Names

Obstacles

Office

Pain

Passionate

People

Phrases

Play

Pleasure

Poet

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Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father’s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare’s way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne’s essays translated by John Florio. That’s probably my most precious possession.

Poems are difficult to silence.

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance – and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig – is to understand the nature of the occasion.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that’s attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

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