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David Rakoff

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

It’s rare that I’m not at work on some sort of craft project. I’ve often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles – physical, intellectual, spiritual – that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

I’m anti-religious. I don’t like people telling me what to do.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

The rigors of creativity – the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude – do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn’t for everyone.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it’s pretty nifty: I don’t mine coal; I get paid to write.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

Play It Again Sam’s opening shot is the same as ‘Purple Rose’s final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I’ve certainly felt that in my life. I’ve been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

Let’s face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it’s like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

– David Rakoff

David Rakoff

I have no problem with animals, I just like people more.

– David Rakoff

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