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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
floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal
— Walter Isaacson
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
Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun even if it is in 140 characters or less.
— Jordin Sparks
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
— Oscar Wilde
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
She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Want of a better idea, she washed her face with the available hand soap and dried
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
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
I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time. Lia — Jodi Picoult
Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say.
— Jane Wiedlin
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 implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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
Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
— 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
When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.
— Billy Idol
