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Top 20 Gary Lutz Quotes (2025 Update)

Gary Lutz Quote: “I’ve been within an inch of my life.”

1. “I’ve been within an inch of my life.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.”

2. “A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer – a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.”

3. “Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer – a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.”

4. “What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love’s devastations and of life’s roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts.”

5. “Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love’s devastations and of life’s roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.”

6. “My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.”

7. “Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “They weren’t hours, these classes; they weren’t even forty-five minutes – they were “periods,” which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.”

8. “They weren’t hours, these classes; they weren’t even forty-five minutes – they were “periods,” which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed.”

9. “I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “I was a great many far cries from myself.”

10. “I was a great many far cries from myself.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.”

11. “Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.”

12. “If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.”

13. “From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “A sentence has to sound as if it has always existed, as if cribbed from everyone else’s inner history ever – from everything you were never to be privy to. It should hit you not as news but as a reminder of what you now wish you never knew.”

14. “A sentence has to sound as if it has always existed, as if cribbed from everyone else’s inner history ever – from everything you were never to be privy to. It should hit you not as news but as a reminder of what you now wish you never knew.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what’s behind you – the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever’s there.”

15. “It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what’s behind you – the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever’s there.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can’t do much about how drawers fill up.”

16. “Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can’t do much about how drawers fill up.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “The job required the luxurious useless indoor fortitude it has always been my fortune to enjoy.”

17. “The job required the luxurious useless indoor fortitude it has always been my fortune to enjoy.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.”

18. “You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “I don’t know which is finally sicker – specifics or engulfing abstractions.”

19. “I don’t know which is finally sicker – specifics or engulfing abstractions.”

Gary Lutz Quote: “Over and over, all I had done was say, ‘There, I’ve said it,’ though it would leave me feeling only exposed, not unmasked.”

20. “Over and over, all I had done was say, ‘There, I’ve said it,’ though it would leave me feeling only exposed, not unmasked.”

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