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Arthur Smith Quotes

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: english
Birth: November 27, 1954

Topics

Travel Book Better Walking My Own

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

Writing Book Want Never Deal Once

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.

You Back Rules Person Go Wild

In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.

Woman Thoughts Book Believe Present

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

John Wesley Powell

Ride Walls River Rocks Know Run

I always had to fight for the chance to get people to hear me.

Fight People Me Chance Always Get

I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.

Work Good Live People Think Doing

I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.

Michael Lehmann

People Look Choice Go Will See

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Music Respect People Dirty Country

I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn't even know we'd be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out.

Tough Feel Know First Naive Out

Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.

Good Music Week Trying Go Swing

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Clare Boothe Luce

Good Mother Sleep Divorce You Know

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

Age Grief Experience Yourself Energy

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