"I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal."

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Elizabeth Crook

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.”
“It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.”
“There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!”

Source : Max Shulman (2016). “The Zebra Derby: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media
“Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not known' about your past... Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.”
“You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.”
“I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.”
“Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.”
“I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.”

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