Stuart Dybek Quotes

#1. I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

Chad Harbach

#2. Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

Gena Showalter

#3. Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

Stuart Dybek

#4. The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

Joe Rogan

#5. - a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

Trevor Noah

#6. Rob was lying just beyond the edge of the shadows thrown by her eyelashes.

Stuart Dybek

#7. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

Stuart Dybek

#8. From here I can say that I am Prisoner... where!?
Prisoner in school... with this new system you are prison... so my number is 2442 and what's yours?

Deyth Banger

#9. Hatred never ends through hatred. By non-hate alone does it end. This is an ancient truth.

Gil Fronsdal

#10. Most men complimented my sexual vigor, thinking I owed it to them. All of them credited themselves afterwards, but the dour clown just lay there. For a moment, I thought I loved him.

Stuart Dybek

#11. No matter how often he strips the past from her body, she finds a way to wear it again.

Stuart Dybek

#12. Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I'd ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.

Stuart Dybek

#14. the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat

Paul Beck

#15. The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

Pope Francis

#16. You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Derek Jeter

#17. The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Stuart Dybek

#18. I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

Sylvester Stallone

#19. What chance did words have beside the distraction of her body?

Stuart Dybek

#20. The sound of dogs howling from the next homestead over. But the space between our houses grows while I sleep. The forest around me deepens. The trees fall in love and multiply. The snow an intoxicant. I pray the pines don't get bolder, that they don't grow organs and hands.

Stuart Dybek

#21. Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

Stuart Dybek

#22. A crowd of tourists were standing in the laundry room. They were speaking languages.

Stuart Dybek

#23. In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

Stuart Dybek