"If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!"

-- Richard Yates

#Novel Quotes #Forty Quotes

“I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1978). “Excellent Women”, Dutton Adult
“Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?”
“Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.”
“Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.”
“To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.”

Source : Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns
“Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce”
“Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.”
“I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.”

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