Geoff Dyer If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you’re probably going to find me fairly limited. – Geoff Dyer Fiction Quotes Limited Quotes Writer Quotes I don’t read ‘genre’ fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ seemed pretty childish in that regard. When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you’d built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.
Jared Polis I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it’s relevant. – Jared Polis
Robert Frost A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. – Robert Frost
Janet McTeer I love the way we do theatre in London: I love the fact that everybody is trained. – Janet McTeer
Jason Becker You know, some people think since I can’t move I am a vegetable. Wrong. Just picture yourself as you are, just always sitting down and if you need something a hot babe takes care of you. I am exaggerating a little, but this is how I see it. – Jason Becker
Arlo Parks Reading the dictionary helps me express myself better. I can spend hours flicking through a thesaurus, too. It’s not about expanding my vocabulary, it’s just that I have a very specific taste with words. I’ll sit and write lists of them to help me better describe my life. – Arlo Parks
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