Adam Langer quotes

“... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.”
-- Adam Langer

Source : Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.36, Open Road Media

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“The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.”
-- Adam Langer

Source : Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media

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“I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.”
-- Adam Langer

Source : Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.86, Open Road Media

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“Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.”

“Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.”

“You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--”

“Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.”

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”

“I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.”

“The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.”