"Last week I was just someone who had……" — Jon McGregor
"Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published."
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21 Quotes by Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor has 21 quotes on this site.
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If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
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Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.
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I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought…
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It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.
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Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
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It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of…
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People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on…
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You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is…
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If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a…
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I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much…
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He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes…
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She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary…
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More First Novel Quotes
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I…
— Piers Anthony
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize,…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
— Mordecai Richler
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In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
— George Barr McCutcheon
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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of…
— Terry Brooks
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became…
— Patricia Briggs
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most…
— Octavia Butler
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories.…
— Walter Mosley
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized…
— Tayari Jones
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Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you…
— Louise Mensch
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