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Jon Katz Quotes

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.

Jon Katz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 8, 1947

Topics

Life Dog Love You Lose Accept

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Joan Didion

Work Business Daily Day Me Writing

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

John Dalberg-Acton

Ignorance Simple Will Development

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

Melvin Burgess

Time Simple Child Writing Political

I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.

John Landgraf

Strength Want Own Hold Against Able

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Meryl Streep

Work Fun Seems Most Much How

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

Ana de la Reguera

Time Job Feel Doing You Movies

No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

Alysia Reiner

Relationship Grief People You Unique

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

Stuart Pearce

Responsibility I Am People Who Quite

I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around.

Tony Bennett

Life Music Time Best My Life Years

I've traveled the country advocating for the Fair Tax, along with Herman Cain, Neal Boortz, and John Linder.

Tom Graves

Traveled Country Tax Fair Along

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

Robin Day

Anything Ever Designs

I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.

Mary Gaitskill

Writing Strong Think Back Young Way