I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.
BERNICE RUBENS

Achievement Blessed Chronic Humor Permanence Wisdom
I don’t know that I want to settle there. I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will inform every syllable I write.
BERNICE RUBENS

Exile Jewish Prefer Syllabus
[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn’t read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
BERNICE RUBENS

Book Consider Judging Lists
If you’re a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
BERNICE RUBENS

Agents Morning Wake Up
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home.
BERNICE RUBENS

Blessed Home Writing

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