Dean Bakopoulos Quotes

#1. In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

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#2. I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

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#3. Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

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#4. People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

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#5. Midlife is when you have to accept what you've created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you'll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror.

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#6. We're all terrible people. Eventually, we all become terrible, maybe around the middle of our lives, and then, if we're lucky, we have time to find a way to be good again.

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#7. In real life, I go to the North Shore with my kids for two weeks each summer, and it's a magical place for us. I feel restored there and connected to the ancient, pre - human world in a way that no place else on Earth does for me.

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#8. Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.

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#9. Loneliness is a kind of suffering you can alleviate. It's not something you have to endure, like grief.

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#10. They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year.

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#11. I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.

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#12. The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.

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#13. A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

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#14. I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

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#15. Like an eye, the moon follows us wherever we go.

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#16. This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.

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#17. Then it's just day by day. And most days are beautiful, Don. It's regretting yesterday or overthinking tomorrow, that's when ugliness comes in, right?

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#18. hay gold dusk of late spring,

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#19. What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.

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