Daniel Mason quotes

“While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.”
-- Daniel Mason

Source : "A Conversation with Daniel Mason, author of THE PIANO TUNER". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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“White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.”
-- Daniel Mason

Source : Daniel Mason (2003). “The Piano Tuner: A Novel”, p.44, Vintage

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“But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me.”
-- Daniel Mason

Source : Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“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,”

“No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

“I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.”

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“I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.”

“The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.”

“It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.”

“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.”