Otto Penzler Quotes
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
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Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.
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It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
