Quotes by Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

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Overboard

A novel is like a gland pill – it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

Book

Running

Writing

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Forests

Instinct

Rich

A writer’s business is minding other people’s business … all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Gossip

People

Vices

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

Ifs

Ohio

An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

Cities

Garden

New York

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Genius

Selfless

World

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

Beautiful

Love

Mosaics

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

Laughter

Oxygen

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness — since I am always so bowled over by it — and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Injustice

Kindness

Pessimistic

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Quotes by Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

A novel is like a gland pill – it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

A writer’s business is minding other people’s business … all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness — since I am always so bowled over by it — and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

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