Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Elman

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Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Richard M. Elman was an American novelist, poet, journalist, and teacher. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Yiddish-speaking and came to the United States at the turn of the 20th century from Russo-Poland. His boyhood is captured in his comic novel Fredi & Shirl & The Kids: An Autobiography In Fables.

American - Novelist | April 23, 1934 - December 31, 1997

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I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

Richard Elman

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.

Richard Elman

If you're famous and supposedly wise, it's always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you might spew out a line or two worth printing somewhere.

Richard Elman

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

Richard Elman

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.

Richard Elman

My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.

Richard Elman

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Elman

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