"You have to wait for your mind to……" — James M. Cain
"You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel."
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James M. Cain
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23 Quotes by James M. Cain
James M. Cain has 23 quotes on this site.
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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental…
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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and…
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually…
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When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have…
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New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
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If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the…
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Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
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A guitar has moonlight in it.
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually…
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O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on…
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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
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I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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