Dogwalker Quotes & Sayings

Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on this collection for four years. I have always been a little unsure of whether I could make it as a writer so I've held other jobs and worked on other projects this whole time. — Arthur Bradford

The great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases ... there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood. — Henry James

But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships
although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships. — Nathan Lane

For the public, it seemed, preferred to believe that which disturbed it least and to ignore troublesome information. Which is a failing common to all nations. — M.M. Kaye

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians. — Paul Watson

My job is never boring. It's always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I'm the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living. — Jewel Staite

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. — Lynda Barry

You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both — Jaejoong

I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs. I'd say the narrator is me in an alternate universe. — Arthur Bradford

I always believed that I'd return to Cleveland and finish my career there. — LeBron James

When you end a chapter in your book of 'Wrong Men,' don't close the book of your love story, just turn the page. — Kelly Rossi

Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad. — John Dryden

For the past two weeks he's been feeling so superior and smart because of all the things he knows from the war, but forget it, they are the ones in charge, these saps, these innocents, their homeland dream is the dominant force. His reality is their reality's bitch; what they don't know is more powerful than all the things he knows, and yet he's lived what he's lived and knows what he knows, which means what, something terrible and possibly fatal, he suspects. To learn what you have to learn at the war, to do what you have to do, does this make you the enemy of all that sent you to the war?
Their reality dominates, except for this: It can't save you. It won't stop any bombs or bullets. He wonders if there's a saturation point, a body count that will finally blow the homeland dream to smithereens. How much reality can unreality take? — Ben Fountain

I'm on Facebook and the Internet EVERY DAY NUMEROUS TIMES A DAY.Sorry about the shouting but I can't help myself. My mother said her dog (a lapdog) never sits on my lap because I always have the laptop on it. — Franny Armstrong

Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen them and know them - some of them I know really well. Although the stories are sometimes gritty and unsettling, my hope is that in the end they hit a positive note. — Arthur Bradford

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people. — Carrie Coon

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that. — John Otto