3 Quotes & Sayings By Anthony Lane

Anthony Lane is an American film critic and columnist for The New Yorker. He also writes for The New York Review of Books and has contributed to the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Vanity Fair. He is a contributing editor at large for Esquire and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He has been a member of the National Society of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellow Read more

He is married to the actress Laura Linney. They have two children, Sam and Olivia.

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but...
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[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were. Anthony Lane
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Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed. Anthony Lane