"I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and……" — Michael Koryta
"I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods."
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11 Quotes by Michael Koryta
Michael Koryta has 11 quotes on this site.
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'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved…
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Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar,…
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Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an…
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I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought…
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Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a…
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When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is…
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You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript,…
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Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.
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I started writing as soon as I started reading.
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We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any…
— Glenn Beck
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[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.
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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing…
— George Saintsbury
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Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you…
— Mitch Hedberg
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My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could…
— Betty Ford
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
— Betty Ford
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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single…
— William Lyon Mackenzie
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So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows…
— Michael Jackson
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The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . .…
— Phyllis Diller
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is…
— Louis Pasteur
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