"The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't."

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Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

George Pelecanos

#Country Quotes #Book Quotes #Cat Quotes

“I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.”
“In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
“I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.”

Source : "Film: Taslima Nasreen- One Woman Against Islam". www.journeyman.tv.
“Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.”
“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.”

Source : Lynne Rae Perkins (2006). “Criss Cross”
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
“I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies”
“We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.”

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

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