#Writing Quotes #Doe Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes
“What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.”
“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.”
“Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.”
“Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.”
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“The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.”
“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”
“Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.”
“Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.”
J. Robert Lennon Novelist
