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A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because you need to make constant decisions.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
The public makes a hit.
— Dee Wallace
You can say anything if enough people will listen.
— Chuck Palahniuk
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.
— Ariana Franklin
Want of a better idea, she washed her face with the available hand soap and dried
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
— Aaron Levie
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Before, mostly for commitment hearings held in a makeshift court
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and muffled beats.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.
— Allan Carr
The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
— William Dean Howells
Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.
— Bill Cosby
Don't disrespect the sword marshmallow.
— Michael Buckley