Garth Stein quotes - page 2

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral. (Garth Stein)
So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it. View quote
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People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes. View quote
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way? View quote
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We had a good run, and now it's over; what's wrong with that? View quote
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The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash. View quote
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Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. View quote
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Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys! View quote
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So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication. View quote
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Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. View quote
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Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you're reacting at speed, you're reacting too late. And so you should be afraid. (Garth Stein)
I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them. View quote
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Sometimes I believe... Sometimes I really do believe. View quote
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The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not. View quote
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The visible becomes inevitable... View quote
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It's so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There's presentation and there's interpretation and they're so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult. View quote
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures. View quote
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see. View quote
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller. View quote
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that. View quote
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving. (Garth Stein)
One more lap, Denny! One more lap! View quote
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To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. View quote
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Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires. View quote
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