George Pelecanos Quotes

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1957

Topics

SchoolPeopleCollegeMeReading

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Jesse Jackson

ColorAmericaThreadBlanketWoven

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

Melvyn Bragg

FamousClassBeingWorkingFanEven

We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.

John Spratt

GoodMoneyPlaceWillPayOut

I hate speeches.

Travis Fimmel

HateSpeeches

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

Michael Morpurgo

WriteUpFictionThingsMake

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Livy

NatureBondPleasureUnitedNatural

Use your development time to brief analysts and industry press. Use these influencers as your eyes and ears to let you know what else is being developed by competitors so that you can be the first to market, and don't make the mistake of launching an also-ran product.

Jay Samit

EyesTimeMistakeYouKnowFirst

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Chris Marker

RealityMuchNeededRarelyImagined

I'm from a Gypsy background!

Cher

GypsyBackground

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

William Hazlitt

JokeSureSomeGenerally

You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that's just U.S. Open golf. It's tough; it's hard.

Peter Uihlein

GoodToughGolfYouHardOpen

Hrithik Roshan is my idol both onscreen as well as off screen. I wish that I could become just 50 percent like him.

Tiger Shroff

WishBecomeI WishHimWellIdol

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