J. A. Konrath Quotes
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
