Dennis Cooper Quotes

My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

Dennis Cooper

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• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  

  E. B. White
  • Genius
  • More
  • Intelligence

• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Dad

• One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Time
  • Country
  • Perspective

• The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Small
  • Understand
  • Fast

• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Security
  • Calm
  • Overcome

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Men get laid, but women get screwed.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Screwed

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Getting Older

• Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Profession
  • Homebody

• The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society

• I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

  

  Rachel
  • Great
  • Shadow
  • Realizing

• Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Failure

• I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Children
  • Pretty
  • Focus

• When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

  

  J. Allen Hynek
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Advice
  • Humans
  • Events

• We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

  

  Amy Dickinson
  • Intentions
  • We Do

• I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Feel
  • Questions

• My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

  

  Dennis Cooper
  • Novels
  • Editing
  • Intentions