"I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book."

-- Michael Connelly

#Believe Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.”
“I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.”
“I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.”
“I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.”
“I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.”
“But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.”

Source : Patrick Carman (2011). “Stargazer”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.
“This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.”
“When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.”

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