Michael Gruber Quotes

United States, Author
October 1, 1940

Michael Gruber is an author living in Seattle, Washington. He attended Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami. He worked as a cook, a marine biologist, a speech writer, a policy advisor for the Jimmy Carter White House, and a bureaucrat for the United States Environmental Protection Agency before becoming a novelist.

But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.

Michael Gruber
- People
- Art
- Character
The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

Michael Gruber

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

Michael Gruber
- People
- Mean
- Stress
It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.

Michael Gruber
- Shadow
- Faces
- Deals
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

Michael Gruber
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Michael Gruber
- People
- Problem
- Evil
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Michael Gruber
- Childhood
- Matter
- Facts
Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

Michael Gruber
- Matter
- Persons
- Stills