Quotes by Stefan Kanfer

“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”

“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”

“They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.”

“Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.”

“Theres something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.”

“They were real pioneers,”

“She was a very acute observer.”