4 Quotes & Sayings By Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum is an award-winning journalist, writer, and editor. He is the author of the novel Conversations with My Father (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award), about his relationship with his father, who was a Holocaust survivor turned boxing trainer. His other books include The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Night of the Sentinels (which was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Ghosts in America, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Men's Journal, Ladies' Home Journal, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and The Atlantic Monthly Read more

His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and in book form. He lives in Washington Heights.

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I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I’m having sex with words in front of you. I’m playing around with them. I’m getting off. I’m trying to titillate you. There’s this magical substance, language, that I’m laying out for you. Then you’re going to fondle it. Wayne Koestenbaum
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Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence. Wayne Koestenbaum
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Prose divides shame into stations. Wayne Koestenbaum