Ben Dolnick Penelope Fitzgerald’s nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You’d be holding an eclectic bunch. – Ben Dolnick Bunch Quotes Eclectic Quotes Entire Quotes Fitzgeralds Quotes Hand Quotes Holding Quotes Inclined Quotes Literary Quotes Novels Quotes Output Quotes Penelope Quotes Shelf Quotes Single Quotes Stretched Quotes I’ve sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom. A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature – to discover its true nature – other than by close and respectful observation?
Peter Jones I lost my computer business when I was 29 because I gave credit to firms I didn’t investigate. I lost my house and had to move back in with my parents and then I lived in an office for six months. – Peter Jones
Christian Coleman When I look back at my career, I want to say I accomplished certain things and ran certain times. – Christian Coleman
Lou Gehrig I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat. – Lou Gehrig
Kat Graham I just want to live on the road. I can’t understand artists that don’t want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I’m not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me. – Kat Graham
Shelley Morrison If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we’re complicit. – Shelley Morrison
Anne-Marie Duff The level of sacrifice in the world of dancing is incredibly intense, that work ethic if nothing else – get up, go to class, rehearsal, performance, get up, go to class – that’s your life, and it’s like that for a finite time, usually. – Anne-Marie Duff
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