3 Quotes & Sayings By Daniel Klein

Daniel Klein was born in Oakland, CA. He holds a B.A. in History from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. He has published over one hundred works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in dozens of journals, anthologies, and compilations Read more

His short fiction has been featured in the Pushcart Prize anthology series, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, The Pushcart Prize XXIII, The Pushcart Prize XXIV, The Pushcart Prize XXV, The Pushcart Prize XXVI , The Pushcart Prize XXVII , The Pushcart Prize XXVIII , The Pushcart Prize XXIX , Best Women's Mystery Stories 2013 , and The New York Times Upfront Fiction Mixture. His novel-length work includes Bliss (winner of the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel), Blackfel (winner of the 2014 Derringer Award for Best Southern Fiction), and Green Skin (winner of the 2014 SFWA Nebula Award). Blackfel was also nominated for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award.

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a...
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This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it. Daniel Klein
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When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me. Daniel Klein