Joseph Kanon quotes
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“You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.”
-- Joseph KanonSource : Joseph Kanon (2012). “Istanbul Passage: A grippping historical thriller from the author of Leaving Berlin”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
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“Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.”
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“I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.”
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“At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.”
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“When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.”
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“Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.”
-- Joseph Kanon
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Source : "Thai opposition views new election" by Ram Ramgopal, edition.cnn.com. April 4, 2006.
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
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“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
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