Bohumil Hrabal Quotes
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
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The desire to please your boss is a good thing, but it could mutate into a weakness. One of the first challenges of getting promoted into management is negotiating the tension between the desire to please the person who promoted you while still remaining true to yourself. The tension is normal, and the fact that you feel it is probably indicative of why you were promoted.
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No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.
