Bakopoulos Quotes & Sayings

If at first you don't succeed, try to eat a big lunch and take a nap ... er wait, no ... #badadvice — Jayce O'Neal

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has. — Dean Bakopoulos

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process. — Dean Bakopoulos

The full moon makes us more...energetic. — Shayne McClendon

They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year. — Dean Bakopoulos

This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me. — Paullina Simons

Then it's just day by day. And most days are beautiful, Don. It's regretting yesterday or overthinking tomorrow, that's when ugliness comes in, right? — Dean Bakopoulos

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life. — Dean Bakopoulos

The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually. — Dean Bakopoulos

This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not. — Dean Bakopoulos

What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts. — Dean Bakopoulos

We're all terrible people. Eventually, we all become terrible, maybe around the middle of our lives, and then, if we're lucky, we have time to find a way to be good again. — Dean Bakopoulos

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping. — Dean Bakopoulos

hay gold dusk of late spring, — Dean Bakopoulos

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic. — Dean Bakopoulos

The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving, — Peter Ho Davies

I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends. — Dean Bakopoulos

My goal is one individual gold. I know how hard it is: you have to have a good day; there can also be some problems with the weather. — Marit Bjorgen

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist ... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music. — Billy Corgan

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span. — Ernest Hemingway,

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also. — Anupam Kher

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments, — Elizabeth Kostova

In real life, I go to the North Shore with my kids for two weeks each summer, and it's a magical place for us. I feel restored there and connected to the ancient, pre - human world in a way that no place else on Earth does for me. — Dean Bakopoulos

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch. — Dean Bakopoulos

In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food. — Dean Bakopoulos

I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me. — Park Chan-wook

Like an eye, the moon follows us wherever we go. — Dean Bakopoulos

Loneliness is a kind of suffering you can alleviate. It's not something you have to endure, like grief. — Dean Bakopoulos

Midlife is when you have to accept what you've created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you'll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror. — Dean Bakopoulos

They did not know; nor did they know that the negation of everything is in itself a form of servitude and
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes. — Albert Camus

First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is. It affects the whole machine, and failure is the consequence. You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure. — Charles Dickens

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise. — Gene Tunney