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Jonathan Carroll Quotes
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. Thats probably why they get along so well. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
For an adult, eating alone at McDonalds is admitting a kind of defeat. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I dont like to have to pan for gold when I read. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I feel like a cliche. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because shes my most severe critic and understands best what Im trying to do. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I write about what interests me. Its very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
If I dont feel like writing today or for a few days, I dont. And I dont think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. Its so schizophrenic. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Its always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Just write about what bites you and damn the rest. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Old people are often impatient, but for what? - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
People are always waiting to be discovered. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Theres almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Very often Ill find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do. - Jonathan Carroll Quotes
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