3 Quotes & Sayings By Peter Ruber

Peter Ruber's work has appeared in many different forms over the years. He has written poems, plays, musicals, novels, film scripts, and essays. He has published poetry in The Boston Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, GQ Magazine, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. His plays have been performed at The Folger Theatre in Washington D.C., at the ACT Theater Company in New York City, at the Schubert Theater in Chicago, and elsewhere Read more

His novel "The Last Leaves Falling" was made into a film starring John Lithgow and Kathleen Turner. Peter's latest book is "Heartbreak Hotel", a collection of poems about the loss of loved ones.

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My second meeting with Vincent Starrett began on a cool Sunday afternoon in May of 1962. After a short interlude, he returned from the kitchen precariously balancing a large cup of tea on a very small saucer. It was the largest tea cup I had ever seen, large enough to startle, I am inclined to suspect, even the Mad Hatter in 'Alice in Wonderland. Peter Ruber
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Well, let me try again, ' he said. 'If it be true, and no doubt it is, that the proper study of mankind is man, it is also true that man is best studied in the books that he has written about himself; and all books, whatever their subject matter, are in essence autobiographical.. Wherefore, it is clear - or is it? - that writers of books are what I have called them, the most fascinating people in the world. Peter Ruber