"It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for."

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Source : "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

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“I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.”
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
“I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.”
“God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep?”
“I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.”
“You have to stop living in order to write.”
“The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.”
“You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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