Kevin Henkes Quotes

When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!

Kevin Henkes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1960

Topics

FamilyLovedLakeThreeBoyCabin

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

Jo Nesbo

HomeArtThinkUniverseYouTry

Arsenal belong as one of the best clubs in the world, and London is a great place to be, a great city to live in.

Mesut Ozil

LiveGreatBestCityWorldPlace

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Amy Hempel

GreatWritingSmallStoryLearnYou

Sometimes you see me on the pitch, and you think I'm playing on the street.

Riyad Mahrez

MeThinkYouSometimesStreetSee

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

Robin Quivers

DayGratefulEvery DayAnythingTake

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Mason Cooley

ThoughtInnocencePossibilities

I'm personally attracted to great writing - that's what turns me on the most.

Michael Mando

GreatMeWritingMostPersonally

I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I never turned back from that point. That's what made it so sweet to me to win a championship after what I went through. I had to scrap and fight to get through it, and to reach the pinnacle made it even sweeter.

Chauncey Billups

WorkOpportunityFightMeSweetWin

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.

Asa Gray

MomentPeopleSpeakFoundationYou

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.

William T. Vollmann

LifeHomeAmerican DreamAmerican

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

William R. Alger

SympathyNeverReasonAlwaysCrowd

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

Susan Orlean

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