Dana Stabenow Quotes & Sayings

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already.
Chopper Jim Chopin — Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. — Dana Stabenow

Once in a while, I like to polish my halo by taking on a case pro bono. — Dana Stabenow

sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey — Dana Stabenow

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will. — Dana Stabenow

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes. — Dana Stabenow

The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm. — Dana Stabenow

Everything change with mine, Katya. — Dana Stabenow

I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat. — Dana Stabenow

The postmistress was a large, zaftig woman with long, grayish blond hair and a floating, floral style of dress. — Dana Stabenow

Suicide by Alaska. — Dana Stabenow

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer. — Dana Stabenow

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery. — Dana Stabenow

Three-hour layover in Seattle. If you were flying Alaska Airlines and you wanted to go to hell you had to fly through Seattle to get there. — Dana Stabenow

She raised her head again. "Aren't you supposed to come over all manly man and forbid the little lady from taking such risks with her fragile self?"
"I like my balls right where they are," he said, and she laughed and put her head back down on his chest.
Kate Shugak to Jim Chopin
Though Not Dead — Dana Stabenow

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed. — Dana Stabenow

How come you're always so mean?
Howie Katelnikof — Dana Stabenow

My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together. — Dana Stabenow

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. — Dana Stabenow

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life. — Dana Stabenow

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak. — Dana Stabenow

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska? — Dana Stabenow

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska. — Dana Stabenow

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea. — Dana Stabenow

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties. — Dana Stabenow

Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them. — Dana Stabenow

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity. — Dana Stabenow