“Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.” — Douglas Kennedy Bald Copy Share Image
“The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.” — Douglas Kennedy Drags Copy Share Image
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. — Douglas Kennedy Accessible Copy Share Image
“All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.” — Douglas Kennedy Life 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… — Douglas Kennedy Rarely Copy Share Image
“...hate is a hard thing to sustain. Grief isn't. Grief is something that can stay with you for a very long time” — Douglas Kennedy Grief 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… — Douglas Kennedy Admitting Copy Share Image
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy Accessible 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… — Douglas Kennedy Alive Copy Share Image
“... the perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.” — Douglas Kennedy Outsider 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… — Douglas Kennedy Abide Copy Share Image
“But can you ever excise a bad parent? Though you might come to terms with all that they have psychologically bequeathed you,… — Douglas Kennedy Bad parent Copy Share Image
“There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened,… — Douglas Kennedy Agony Copy Share Image
“Discipline is all about the imposition of control-the belief that, by following a precise regime and avoiding distractions, you can somehow keep… — Douglas Kennedy Control Copy Share Image
“Money. The trickiest substance in life--as it's the way we keep score, measure our worth, and think we can control our destinies.… — Douglas Kennedy Life Copy Share Image
“Once you've crossed over into that realm of nothingness, your story only really stays in the minds of those closest to you.… — Douglas Kennedy Nothingness 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 Been Copy Share Image
“But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby--and the baby of you--and you… — Douglas Kennedy Fear Copy Share Image
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for… — Douglas Kennedy Astonishment Copy Share Image
But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated… — Douglas Kennedy Astonishment Copy Share Image
“We all crave latitude in life, yet simultaneously dig ourselves deeper into domestic entrapment. We may dream of traveling light but accumulate… — Douglas Kennedy Escape Copy Share Image
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people. — Douglas Kennedy Celebrity Copy Share Image
“Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.” — Douglas Kennedy Depression Copy Share Image
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone… — Douglas Kennedy Adults Copy Share Image
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they? — Douglas Kennedy Stories Copy Share Image
“... we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ... ” — Douglas Kennedy Jaded 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.… — Douglas Kennedy Arbitrary Copy Share Image
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 Accepted 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 About Copy Share Image
“We all end up ruing everything. It's the nature of this thing we call 'our condition.' Could, but didn't...Wanted to, but stopped… — Douglas Kennedy Nature 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… — Douglas Kennedy Preposterous Copy Share Image
“We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build… — Douglas Kennedy Believe Copy Share Image
We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to…because it allows us to… — Douglas Kennedy Dodge Copy Share Image
