Sid Fleischman > Quotes

“The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.”
― Sid Fleischman

“Joy was not the raw material of humor . . . The dark source was sorrow.”
― Sid Fleischman, The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

“Words were a conjuration, and their charms had begun to bewitch him.”
― Sid Fleischman, The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

“I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches.”
― Sid Fleischman, The Entertainer and the Dybbuk