I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League"… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
TV was the boogey man when I was growing up. Video games are the boogey man now. The novel was once a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have… — David Duchovny Copy Share
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So… — David Duchovny Copy Share
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. — David Duchovny Copy Share
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money -… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter. — David Duchovny Copy Share
Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get,… — David Duchovny Copy Share
“Of course I’m biased, what else could I be? Bias makes the world go round, sometimes a little too fast.” — David Duchovny Copy Share
'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd… — David Duchovny Copy Share
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. — David Duchovny Copy Share
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to… — David Duchovny Copy Share
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with… — David Duchovny Copy Share
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