“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”

Howard Nemerov

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”

Howard Nemerov

“I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.”

Howard Nemerov

“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”

Howard Nemerov

“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”

Howard Nemerov