Glen Hirshberg Quotes

#1. Great work doesn't make me jealous; it makes me want to work.

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#2. Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

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#3. So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

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#4. Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.

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#5. Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It's the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

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#6. Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

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#7. Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.

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