Dale Peck Quotes

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

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• Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Strength

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Important
  • Show
  • Leave

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Also

• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Ocean

• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Good
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Father
  • Child
  • Now

• I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Hand
  • Photography
  • Six

• L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Work
  • Office
  • Here

• Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Desire

• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Beginning

• I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Energy

• I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

  

  David Liss

• I love dark chocolate. I love it.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Freedom
  • Imagination
  • Create

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• 'Is this the conduct of a ‘sly and unpredictable villain’?''Decidedly so, if the villain, for the purposes of his joke, thinks to simulate the altruist.''Then how will you know villain from altruist?'Cugel shrugged. 'It is not an important distinction.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Important

• I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.

  

  Michael Feldman
  • Things
  • Approach
  • Indirectly

• I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Fiction