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Dennis Lehane has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and…
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He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what…
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Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever…
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price,…
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Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
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Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
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The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
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Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I…
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Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making…
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I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
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That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back…
— Cynthia Weil
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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of…
— Albert Maltz
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The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
— Marjane Satrapi
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I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it…
— Dennis Lehane
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
— Barry Mann
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When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a…
— Kate Bush
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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that…
— David Sedaris
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I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to…
— Roseanne Barr
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My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.
— Robert Lopez
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When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working…
— John Tesh
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