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Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Bad Bad Day Books Catch Day Good Good Day Half Line Me Never Think Too Written I Think

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I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Came Catholic Either Family Fractured Good Grew Home Homes Irish Kids Lottery Most Parental Really Traditional Up Very Violent Won

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Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Becomes Chaos Ever Focus How Job Make Narrative Only Reason Sense Should Try Way World Writing You

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I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Absurd Because Could Dark Found Funny Happy Kind Kinds Never Realistic Short Short Stories Stories Two Very Write

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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Believe Capable Deeply Highest Highest Level Language Level Lifting Making Prose Words You Your I Believe

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I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: About Father Happen Him His His Way How Immigrant Keep Lot Make Me Modeled Place Rage Seeing Society Struggle Things Through Tied Up Watching Way Working-Class World

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The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

~Dennis Lehane

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The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Best Creative Entering Happen Other People Possibilities Professions Thing

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Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Fiction Get Literary Literary Fiction Love Me Stand Wrong I Love

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It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

~Dennis Lehane

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 4th, 1965

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