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Top 25 David Bezmozgis Quotes (2025 Update)

David Bezmozgis Quote: “Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.”

1. “Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.”

2. “When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “A measure of earth under your feet that you could call your own. Was there a more primitive concept? But nobody lives in the ether.”

3. “A measure of earth under your feet that you could call your own. Was there a more primitive concept? But nobody lives in the ether.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.”

4. “When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn’t so easy to decide which position is correct.”

5. “Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn’t so easy to decide which position is correct.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.”

6. “I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don’t think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.”

7. “There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don’t think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you’ll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.”

8. “I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you’ll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.”

9. “Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.”

10. “Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it’s because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.”

11. “I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it’s because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.”

12. “In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “This is what I discovered during my imprisonment. I saw the human character in its naked form. I saw at one end a narrow rank of villainy, and at the other a narrow rank of virtue. In the middle was everyone else. And I understood that the state of the world is the result of the struggle between these two extremes.”

13. “This is what I discovered during my imprisonment. I saw the human character in its naked form. I saw at one end a narrow rank of villainy, and at the other a narrow rank of virtue. In the middle was everyone else. And I understood that the state of the world is the result of the struggle between these two extremes.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.”

14. “Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.”

15. “We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “Maybe the most provocative thing one can do – and I’m not the first one to do it – is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some people better than others? Why are some people more moral than others?”

16. “Maybe the most provocative thing one can do – and I’m not the first one to do it – is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some people better than others? Why are some people more moral than others?”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.”

17. “There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “Nothing is easy in writing. I don’t think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.”

18. “Nothing is easy in writing. I don’t think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.”

19. “People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.”

20. “There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I’m very proud of, but I didn’t want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.”

21. “I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I’m very proud of, but I didn’t want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “It’s not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.”

22. “It’s not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “I think every book is a reaction to everything you’re written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.”

23. “I think every book is a reaction to everything you’re written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.”

24. “I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.”

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David Bezmozgis Quote: “We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?”

25. “We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?”

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