Paul Horgan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.
-- Paul Horgan

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There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.
-- Paul Horgan

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A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.
-- Paul Horgan

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Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
-- Paul Horgan

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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

Paul Horgan famous quotes

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