David Ebershoff Quotes

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

Making history does not necessarily change history.

The minor events of history are valuable, although not always showy and picturesque.

Men live in history as never before …. we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

Rumors of the American demise... have been greatly exaggerated.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

'Rise' has a lot of different meanings. It's a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live.

One of the promises we made to each other was that Wham! would never be resurrected because it was about being young.

'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.