Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauseris an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books back into print...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 August 1943
CountryUnited States of America
novelists pity poor
God pity the poor novelist.
mask
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
strikes
I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.
absolutely-nothing knows
We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.
time
I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
delusions disappear escaping exactly people strike themselves truth
I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.
argue dislike endless system vital
What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.