Book Quote by George Plimpton Download Open image “My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.” — George Plimpton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Kate Monologues My favorite Relationship Stories Truman
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Picking from previous works I've watched, I really liked Jennifer Lawrence's 'Silver Linings Playbook.' It made me want to play that kind of role… — Bae Suzy Copy Share Image
“When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb right into… — Kristen D. Randle Copy Share Image
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
“A male star named "T.T. Boy"…is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image