Top 21 William Lashner Quotes
#1. When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
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#2. I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.
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#3. People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.
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#5. My great fear in this life didn't have a name that I knew of. I was afraid of remaining exactly who I was, and that phobia instilled a shiver of fear into every one of my days. Something as simple as a fear of cats would have been a blessing.
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#6. Drinking tea is like kissing your dog. It's warm and wet, sure, but where's the kick? If I need to, I'll just pick up another Venti at the Starbucks and use the bathroom there.
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#7. I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.
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#8. In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.
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#9. There's a place you can get to. It's hard to find and it's easy to fall out of, but there it is, that place. It is the sweetest place you've never been and it's called I Don't Give a Crap. Book yourself a ticket.
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#10. Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.
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#12. I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!
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#13. You don't want to hear what I have to say. You only want me to say what you want to hear. But trust me when I tell you that you won't ever get all you want. You'll just grow frustrated and bitter, and you'll end up doing things that will kill the best part of you.
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#14. Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.
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#15. I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
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#16. We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only really changed was our luck. Put us in the same circumstances as our previous folly and suddenly we'd revert, all of us, to what we were. That's what I believed
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#18. It's all part of the bartender's creed: make them fresh, make them cold, but most of all, if they're a little overeager, make them wait.
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#19. If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.
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#20. I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
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#21. We were failures, all of us. We told him we had our reasons for the way things had turned out, but he didn't want to hear it. Told us that nothing consumed a man's soul more than the easy excuse.
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