Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Stern

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an author Steve Stern.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Steve Stern

Steve J. Stern is an author from Memphis, Tennessee. Much of his work draws inspiration from Yiddish folklore.

Author | Born: December 21, 1947
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves. — © Steve Stern
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.
The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.
The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.
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