Pelecanos In Order Quotes

#1. I made you collapsible. I put you in and raised you with string and made you stay
there with putty.

Cath Crowley

#2. The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about himself. As if it's only rich white people or Republicans or conservatives who have this disease.

George Pelecanos

#3. Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Julia Cameron

#4. Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

Robert Ludlum

#5. I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

Douglas Coupland

#6. That's it! That's the list.

Tony Kornheiser

#7. The runes moved under my fingers as the fabric of space split and fluctuated within the confines of the portal.

Charity Bradford

#8. That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace" -Agatha Swanburne

Maryrose Wood

#9. An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Ravi Zacharias

#10. Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better ... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

William Zinsser

#11. Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

Alexandra Bracken