Peter Benchley I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don’t think there’s a single writer who influences me. – Peter Benchley Fiction Quotes Influences Quotes Nonfiction Quotes Read Quotes Single Quotes Writer Quotes Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
Jonathan Lethem I’d excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. – Jonathan Lethem
Roy Haynes This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don’t perform and I am not myself when I am not performing. – Roy Haynes
BestMohnish PabraiSuccess Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own. – Mohnish Pabrai
BusinessDana CarveyHope Now we’re here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one’s going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We’ll see what happens. – Dana Carvey
Garry Shandling My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me. – Garry Shandling
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