George Singleton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.
-- George Singleton

#Rain #Writing #Water
Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.
-- George Singleton

#Writing #Flames #Desks
There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
-- George Singleton

#Childhood #Information #Lasts
One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.
-- George Singleton

#Memories #One Day #Cherish
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
-- George Singleton

#Feel Better #Roles #Madmen
Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
-- George Singleton

#Writing #Trying #Want
I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.
-- George Singleton

#Water #Pay #Helping
Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.
-- George Singleton

#Selfish #Drinking #Thinking
I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.
-- George Singleton

#Dog #Cat #Years
I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.
-- George Singleton

#Party #Doctors #Government

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