In the Land of Men Quotes

“You always had to play along and enact a charade. You had to meet these people in their illusions of themselves and pretend to see them as they wished to be seen. You had to pretend that the mask was real.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“What are we to do with the art of profoundly compromised men?”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“It is not impossible that free will is an invention of the novelist, who is in the interiority business.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“Sometimes we'll get a glimpse of this greater reality - that's all we get, though, a glimpse - and then the place again withdraws, out of reach and scattering like fog.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“In order to write, and to live, the mask had to come off.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“He certainly had never been made to feel so powerless and inferior, not in such a tawdry - let's be real: sexist - way. He'd never been made to feel as if his only identity in the world were as a leech, a parasite. No, worse than that: a silly little ephemeron trifler, a life lived only in relationship to another person.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“I'd believed that if I got this job, or even if I got any sort of power, that I wouldn't be scared anymore. I had been hoping that power was the way to undo fear. But then you learn: the fear is here to stay. The fear was always there, except when I was at my desk, with a manuscript in front of me and a pen in hand.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“I became accustomed to providing protection to brilliant, narcissistic, charismatic, fiercely ambitious men - men who never quite thought about extending the same protection to me, no, not quite.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men: A Memoir

“Marysville, Ohio, is now pretty much a commuter suburb of Columbus, but when I was growing up there, it may as well have been rural Kansas in the thirties.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Adam Johnson (then a student; he would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). I published a piece by young Jonathan”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Porlockian”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Amanda Davis.”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men

“Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, John Cheever, Ann Beattie, William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, and Rust’s own spouse, the amazing Joy Williams. He was”
― Adrienne Miller, In the Land of Men