Charles D'Ambrosio Quotes

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.