Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Ben Loory

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Ben Loory.
Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Ben Loory

Ben Loory is an American short fiction writer. He is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day and Tales of Falling and Flying, as well as a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. Loory’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Electric Literature, and Fairy Tale Review, and been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches short story writing at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.
Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. 
 Then he met it.
 Now he glows in the dark. — © Ben Loory
Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
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