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In the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely.
— Padgett Powell
apply shingles from the bottom up.
— Padgett Powell
jejune longing is the chewing gum of life.
— Padgett Powell
Today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything.
— Padgett Powell
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
— Padgett Powell
I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
— Padgett Powell
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
— Padgett Powell
Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
— Padgett Powell
The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.
— Padgett Powell
When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
— Padgett Powell
Life is a time when you get pleasure until somebody get your ass. and one of the ways to prolong pleasure is to not chop up time with syllables.
— Padgett Powell
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
— Padgett Powell
I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
— Padgett Powell
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
— Padgett Powell
I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
— Padgett Powell
Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
— Padgett Powell
I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
— Padgett Powell
Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting,
— Padgett Powell
Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?
— Padgett Powell
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
— Padgett Powell
You can't disturb a nobody with evidence he's a nobody. A nobody is not disturbed by anything significant.
— Padgett Powell
the levity of the doomed has no equal.
— Padgett Powell
Have you decided yet what historical moment you would have most like to have witnessed with your own eyes and ears?
— Padgett Powell
Don't hesitate to insulate your house, especially the floor.
— Padgett Powell
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.
— Padgett Powell
Alternate the theories you entertain about all things.
— Padgett Powell
