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Padgett Powell Quotes

They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

Padgett Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 25, 1952

Topics

Me Lose Paris Lost Review Out

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

Art Myself Thinking Find British

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

Jen Lancaster

Life Writing My Own Out Fiction Own

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.

Ann Macbeth

Impossible Believe Doing Drama Say

I have a healthy relationship with food. My problem is, as a comic, I eat dinner late. But I'll have a smoothie for breakfast every morning, and I keep it pretty low-carb and healthy during the day. At night, I'll have a basic protein, quinoa, and vegetables.

Amy Schumer

Morning Relationship Food Day Dinner

I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.

Ana Layevska

Love I Am Anything Just Would Picky

I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.

Amanda Peet

Worry Bed Socks Salary Clean Floor

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Ambrose Bierce

Secrets Herself Entrusted Confided

I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Tony Rock

Brooklyn Kid Skinny

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

Robert Wilson

Work Nature Think Things Just Many

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

Dick Van Patten

More Pick Hit Thousand Few Hundred

We need to get big money out of Washington.

Conner Eldridge

Money Washington Need Out Big Get

Work's a way of life. It's the way you live; it's what you do, and it's how it is. It's not work. It's a lifestyle. It's life. It's what one does. You can't not work.

Anouska Hempel

Life Work Live You Lifestyle Way