Hirshberg's Quotes

#1. American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.

Dennis Etchison

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

Glen Hirshberg

#3. My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.

Gary Hirshberg

#4. We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food,

Gary Hirshberg

#5. It seems like James really doesn't like you, Siobhan."
"Nah. He's just mad at me because I didn't call him back after we slept together."
- Kayla Dorland and Siobhan Wrestles

R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes

#6. I get more tired by travelling than anything.

Manolo Blahnik

#7. Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

Gary Hirshberg

#8. Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo

Christopher Golden

#9. Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.

Henry Rollins

#10. I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

Kenneth Branagh

#11. When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

Tom Cruise

#12. Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.

Gary Hirshberg

#13. 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.

Glen Hirshberg

#14. Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and are only one step away from being homeless. Whether you are white, black, Latino, or Asian, we have to be there to help pick each other up.

Raheem Devaughn

#15. In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

David Brin

#16. In certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

Herman Melville

#17. I believe in the power of one.

Gary Hirshberg

#18. 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.

Glen Hirshberg

#19. 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.

Glen Hirshberg

#20. Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Ramana Maharshi

#21. The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

Gary Hirshberg

#22. I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

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

Glen Hirshberg

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

Glen Hirshberg

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

Glen Hirshberg

#26. Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.

Edeet Ravel

#27. Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.

Kate Christensen

#28. There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

Fred Tomaselli