Pelecanos Books Quotes

#1. Sometimes when you try too hard to protect the people you care about, you end up hurting them instead.
- Jase, Time Mends (Timber Wolves #2)

Tammy Blackwell

#2. I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

George Pelecanos

#3. You sound just like Mama," she groans in exasperation.

Jolene Buchheit

#4. Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.

Garry Kasparov

#5. I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

Miranda July

#6. I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character.

George Pelecanos

#7. I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

Taufik Hidayat

#8. May as well have painted the walls black, she thought with some amusement.

Evan Currie

#9. Enough human sorrow had been aired on this bench below them over the centuries for them to understand when a mother mistook a daughter for a part of herself, a part that stood for something she did not like. Two people suffer whenever that mistake is made. Blank

James Long

#10. Our powder and arrows are going to run out on us some time. And so are our food and water and joie de vivre and good books and everything. Why not walk out now and get made into somebody's favourite slave?

Dorothy Dunnett

#11. I mean, I wouldn't have wanted to be recognized. But I was kind of a prude about cheating on taxes, group sex, murder, and stuff.

MaryJanice Davidson