Thomas Mallon Quotes

United States, Novelist
November 2, 1951

Thomas Mallonorn is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the "bystanders" to larger historical events.

Also known as Critic, Essayist

American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

Thomas Mallon
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Thomas Mallon
- World
- Facts
- Fiction

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

Thomas Mallon
- Sleep
- Wall
- Boxes
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

Thomas Mallon
- People
- Writing
- Enough
Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

Thomas Mallon
- Trying
- Way
- Novel
Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Thomas Mallon
I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

Thomas Mallon
- Thinking
- Book
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Thomas Mallon