Robert Dugoni famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

You may also like: