"Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing."

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Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 15, 2010.

Sharon Jones

#New York Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.”
“Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?”
“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2014). “The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels”, p.50, Penguin
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
“My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.”
“In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.”
“After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.”

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