Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Profession : Novelist

Birth : May 16, 1961

The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

Jean Hanff Korelitz