George Singleton Quotes

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.

George Singleton

• Society
• Role
• Madman

I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight.

George Singleton

• Government
• Overweight
• Tea Party

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.

George Singleton

• Memory
• Cherish
• Corner

You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.

George Singleton

• Reader
• Explain
• Drop

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.

George Singleton

• Build
• Taxes
• Smoke

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

George Singleton

• Want
• Write
• Publishing

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

George Singleton

• Life
• Childhood
• Information

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

• Write
• Flames
• Remind

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

George Singleton

• Stories
• Teach
• Cat