Jon McGregor Quotes

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• If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
• Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
• Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.
• I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so…
• It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.
• Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
• It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive,…
• People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People…
• You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and…
• If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of…
• I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too…
• He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders…
• She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if…
• He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as…
• I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think…
• I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold…
• The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.
• there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.
• All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy…
• There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

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