Gary Reilly

“The big house... reminded me of the types of structures you can still see in places like Center City: gingerbread houses, two-story…

— Gary Reilly

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget…

— Gary Reilly

“I don't think there is anything that annoys me as much as having to "be" somewhere. It seems like every bad thing…

— Gary Reilly

“My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.”

— Gary Reilly

“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.”

— Gary Reilly

Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But…

— Gary Reilly

“Golf baffles me. They says it’s a sport, and I have to take their word for it, but anything that involves having…

— Gary Reilly

“To me, knowing how to do something is like cheating. That's why I never studied in grade school. Studying made passing tests…

— Gary Reilly

“My fake weekend has begun. I always take Tuesday off, unless my rent is due and I need to pick up some…

— Gary Reilly

“TGIF," I said aloud even though it was only Thursday. But I was alone in my apartment as far as I knew.…

— Gary Reilly

Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that…

— Gary Reilly

“Get thee behind me, whatever you are," that's my motto.”

— Gary Reilly

“Late Friday morning I was driving toward Boulder. I was seated in "Doctor Lovebeads Cosmic Wonderbus and Mobile Mercantile." That entire phrase…

— Gary Reilly

“I didn't offer to help him carry any of his stuff. That's the unwritten code between cabbies and movers.... It's his punishment…

— Gary Reilly

“They say that a man has to want to quit before he can stop working, that nobody can stop working for him.…

— Gary Reilly

I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob.…

— Gary Reilly

“I've always said that a taxi is a terrible place to have an epiphany...”

— Gary Reilly

“I'll take my alkaloid diuretics wherever I can get them. If there isn't a 7-11 in the vicinity, a Winchell's donut shop…

— Gary Reilly

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.

— Gary Reilly

“I guess I was sort of like a person who has seen a really great movie or read a really great book…

— Gary Reilly

“...like I always say, “Now is as good a time as any to start not doing things.”

— Gary Reilly

“I don't like people to know I think things.”

— Gary Reilly

“I had learned that some people feel that books are "intrusive," in the sense that books put things in their heads that…

— Gary Reilly

I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where…

— Gary Reilly

“Gavin said that writing novels with a PC was supposed to be easier than writing with a typewriter and bond paper, or…

— Gary Reilly