Jon Katz Quotes
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.
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Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun
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There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
