William Landay Quotes
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
Quotes to Explore
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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I want to have a long career.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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I want to fight Gilbert Melendez.
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
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I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.
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I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.
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I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
