Dan Greenburg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
-- Dan Greenburg

#Cat #Writing #Perfect
Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best only after they have been properly mellowed.
-- Dan Greenburg

#Wine #Worry #Fine
I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.
-- Dan Greenburg

#Guilt #Metal Detectors #Metals
You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.
-- Dan Greenburg

#Want #What You Want #Knows

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.
When I kicked in the first TV Â– a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels Â– it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

Dan Greenburg famous quotes

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