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Smiling takes more effort than it's worth, Your Highness.
— Amish Tripathi
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
— David Antin
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
— David Antin
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
— David Antin
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
— David Antin
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
— David Antin
Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.
— Robert Breault
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
— David Antin
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
— David Antin
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
— David Antin
I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel.
— Marge Piercy
The margin between success and drama is fractional.
— Jacky Ickx
Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.
— James Stewart
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
— David Antin
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
— David Antin
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
— David Antin
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
— Friedrich Schiller
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
— David Antin
What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.
— S. Hunter Nisbet
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
— David Antin
Be strong. Be diligent. Be conscientious. There is never anything to be gained by taking the easy road.
— Julia Quinn
