Patrick Dennis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
-- Patrick Dennis

#Dirty #Writing #Mind
Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.
-- Patrick Dennis

#Unborn
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.
-- Patrick Dennis

#Writing #Digging #Harder

Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick
She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.
[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

Patrick Dennis famous quotes

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