"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves."

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Source : "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com.

Jesse James Garrett

#Appreciation Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.”
“I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.”
“Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the fâ€” youâ€™re doing”
“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”
“It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.”
“The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.”
“Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.”

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