KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

David Means Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by David Means

Showing 1-10 of 55 Quotes by David Means

A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.

~David Means

Topics: Across After Along Bear Born Bridge Car Cassette Days Deck Drove Few Hear Hudson Moment Mountain Old Past Perfect Perfect Moment Point Put River Twisted West West Point Worn

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

~David Means

Topics: Does Just Make Novel Out Story Stretch Take You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let it sit, sometimes for a long time, and then when I'm ready, I work on revision.

~David Means

Topics: Draft Drafts First Got Hand House Long Long Time Often Out Ready Revision Sit Sometimes Somewhere Then Time Type Up Work Write I Write

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There is this idea of 'north,' and if you're from Michigan and you wandered the Upper Peninsula, you know what it feels like. The sky has a particular vibe, a coldness, stretching into the upper reaches of Canada.

~David Means

Topics: Canada Feels Idea Know Like Michigan North Particular Sky Stretching Upper Vibe Wandered You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country.

~David Means

Topics: Across Alley American Back Corporate Country Gloss Landscape Love Places Roads Sameness Seems Spreading Still Veneer I Love

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old recordings, and even pseudo-folk singers like James Taylor seemed to be safeguarding something, drawing back bygone days.

~David Means

Topics: Back Days Drawing Even Following Found James Kind Like Old Recordings Safeguarding Seemed Singers Solace Something Taylor Were

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you're just passing someone in the street. Inside those moments - however brief they may be - there is a kind of anticipatory silence.

~David Means

Topics: Another Brief Dance Even Every Expectation However Inside Interaction Involves Just Kind May Moments Passing Person Silence Someone Street Those You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.

~David Means

Topics: Absurd Casualty Illness Imagined Indirect Knew Know Long Long Time Mental Mental Illness Novel Older Older Sister Personal She Sister Still Suffered Suffers Time Trauma Vietnam Vietnam War Wanted War Who Write Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.

~David Means

Topics: American Clean Contemplative Culture Deeply Often Paradox Pragmatic Problems Quick Simple Solutions Vast Want

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.

~David Means

Topics: Another Combat Culture End Generation Never One Way Simply Those Wars Way

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 17th, 1961

Links

Find David Means on Amazon

Related Authors

Ray Bradbury
Dale Carnegie
Robert A. Heinlein
Napoleon Hill
Elbert Hubbard
H. L. Mencken
Dr. Seuss
William Arthur Ward

Popular Authors

Thomas Aquinas Jimmy Buffett Mitch Hedberg Robert A. Heinlein Billie Jean King Mac Miller Ronald Reagan Jim Valvano

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Attitude Car Good Marriage Patriotism Respect Sad Travel