Blaine Pardoe Quotes
As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.

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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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I'm not a great writer.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
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What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?
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He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.
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Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.
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As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
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As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.