Ben Dolnick Quotes
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.
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It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
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When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.
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It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.
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The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.
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To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.
