Pochoda Quotes

#1. Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda's voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it's indelibly her own.

Dennis Lehane

#2. While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Claire Cameron

#3. I want something that makes people strong and energetic for the present, that borrows the strength of to-morrow for use to-day - leaving to-morrow without any at all for that matter; or even that would take all life away to-morrow, so long as it enabled me to get home again now.

Thomas Hardy

#4. There's always a book in the background.

Suzanne Steele

#5. I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me.

Piri Thomas

#6. My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability.

Christopher Fowler

#7. What if there were no hypothetical questions?

George Carlin

#8. Never think that way ... that a person who loves you won't hurt you in the worst way possible. They will.

Jason Myers

#9. You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

Norton Juster

#10. Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

David Sedaris

#11. The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

Desmond Tutu

#12. I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it.

John Steinbeck

#13. Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

David Cook

#14. I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

Hillary Clinton

#15. The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Ty Cobb

#16. We let people invent us as they please, he thinks. The truth we keep to ourselves.

Ivy Pochoda

#17. I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

Stephen King

#18. Does the thoughtful man suppose that ... the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

George Santayana