Per Petterson Quotes
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.
Quotes to Explore
-
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
-
I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
-
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.
-
You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
-
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
-
Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.
-
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
-
Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
-
If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
-
At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
-
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
-
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
-
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
-
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
-
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
-
If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
-
I don't believe in happy families.
-
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
-
It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.
-
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
-
I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.
-
I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.
-
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
-
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.
