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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At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.
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To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.
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The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.
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Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.
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Ahchoo:Man, white men can't jump!!
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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.
