With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.
There is much to be said for solitude. - Douglas Kennedy
There is much to be said for solitude.
- Douglas Kennedy
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us. - Douglas Kennedy
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people. - Douglas Kennedy
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histori… - Douglas Kennedy
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histori…
But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold co… - Douglas Kennedy
But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold co…
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corn… - Douglas Kennedy
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corn…
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they? - Douglas Kennedy
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. - Douglas Kennedy
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather… - Douglas Kennedy
We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather…
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