List of Douglas Kennedy Quotes

The Decision To Write Full Time Was Made When I Was Twenty-eight Years Old And Had Just Had Two Small Plays Accepted For Bbc Radio.

We Can Rarely Tell Others What We Really Think About Them--not Just Because It Would So Wound Them, But Also Because It Would So Wound Ourselves.

We All Want To Fix Things. Just As We All Believe That So Much In Life Can Be Rectified. Mend Fences, Build Bridges, Reach Out, Engage In Mutual Healing.

We Don't Like Admitting This, But It Is A Key Component Of Human Existence: The Fact That Life Has The Potential For Things Both Wondrous And Horrific.

Words Matter, Words Have Import.

From Graham Greene, I Learnt How To Be An Accessible Writer Who Grapples With Our Doubts As Sentient Individuals.

There Were Moments When I Felt Seriously Unhinged; When I Was Convinced That I Would Never, Ever Recover From What Had Happened, When It Was Absolutely Clear To Me That Life From This Point On Would Be Constant Agony.

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.

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 Corner With A Little Shade, And I Can Work.

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 Histories.

All Our Stories Are Simultaneously Unique And Desperately Similar, Aren't They?

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 Not Hear.