Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Max Apple

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Max Apple.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Max Apple is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

American - Novelist | Born: October 22, 1941

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I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.

Max Apple

If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.

Max Apple

The story is my favorite form.

Max Apple

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

Max Apple

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.

Max Apple

As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.

Max Apple

I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.

Max Apple

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

Max Apple

As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.

Max Apple

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Max Apple