"I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Dale Peck

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.”
“No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.”
“If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.”

Source : "Brooke Astor, 105, First Lady of Philanthropy, Dies" by Marilyn Berger, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2007.
“While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 357), 1895.
“Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.”
“There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.”
“When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.”
“Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.”

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