Jay Neugeboren Quotes

#1. "Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"

Jack Welch

#2. For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

Patrick Modiano

#3. A woman who loses a husband is called a widow, a man who loses his wife is called a widower, and a child who loses his/her parents is called an orphan, but there is no word in the English language for a parent who loses a child (Jay Neugeboren).

David Asay

#4. It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free.

Jay Neugeboren

#5. I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are ... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.

Jay Neugeboren

#6. A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head.

Jay Neugeboren

#7. If you learn to respond as if it's the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

David Steindl-Rast

#8. You cannot be named. To define is to confine.

Sue Maisano

#9. A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

Jay Neugeboren

#10. As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.

Jay Neugeboren

#11. Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

Seth Klarman

#12. Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

Jay Neugeboren

#13. I love your control. It turns me on." He caught my fingers in his teeth, then released them.
"I know."
"But when you lose it ... " I sighed, remembering. "It drives me crazy to know I can do that to you, that you want me that much.

Sylvia Day

#14. I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#15. The folding or doubling is itself a Memory: the 'absolute memory' or the memory of the outside, beyond the brief memory inscribed in strata and archives, beyond the relics remaining in the diagrams.

Gilles Deleuze

#16. There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

Jay Neugeboren

#17. I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.

Jay Neugeboren

#18. Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

John Agyekum Kufuor

#19. Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.

Danny Meyer

#21. There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

Jay Neugeboren