Dept Of Speculation Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true; that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it? — Michael Cunningham

No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in. — John Keats

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. — Jenny Offill

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways. — Sam Lipsyte

I write to close my eyes. — Franz Kafka

I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way. — Jenny Offill