Anthony Doerr Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator’s earmuffs. – Anthony Doerr Chainsaw Quotes Coffee Quotes Compose Quotes Earmuffs Quotes Megadeth Quotes Novels Quotes Operators Quotes Pair Quotes Rowdy Quotes Shops Quotes Supposedly Quotes Wear Quotes Write Quotes Writers Quotes We buy a copy of ‘Gravity’s Rainbow,’ say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word ‘copy’ fails. Because what I experience when I read ‘Gravity’s Rainbow,’ or ‘Beloved,’ or ‘The Moviegoer,’ is not at all a ‘copy’ of what you experience when you read the same novel. Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee When people see me knitting, I tell them I’m a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go. – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Kenneth Lonergan I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish. – Kenneth Lonergan
Paul Farmer What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering. – Paul Farmer
Karl Urban That’s always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you’re attempting to do. – Karl Urban
Samuel Adams It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly. – Samuel Adams
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