The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“... we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ... ” — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.” — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“ We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they? — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.” — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
