Ben Lerner Quotes About Irony

Quotes about: Irony

• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Cities, Would Be, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  Ben Lerner

  Cutting, Fog, Feelings

• Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

  Ben Lerner

  Moving, Writing, Irony

  Source: www.believermag.com

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