We Were The Mulvaneys Quotes & Sayings

A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center. — James Frey

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. — Meg Rosoff

Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people. — Flannery O'Connor

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification. — Charlie Munger

In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats. — Joyce Carol Oates

Dream as much as you like, but the world is not a dream. — Marty Rubin

I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary. — Lauren Fleshman

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience. — Andy Weir

'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat. — Joyce Carol Oates

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. — Joyce Carol Oates