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Padgett Powell
American Novelist
Born: Apr 25, 1952
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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo. Padgett Powell
Signs Snake Tortoise Find Park Could Parks Colorful Information Scrub Jay Special Many Showing Flora Florida
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. Padgett Powell
Conversation Cell Phone Phone Become Nothing President Else Everyone Earth Say Minimal Rise Only Had Look Because Years Mobile Cell Communications Used Hard Even Now Thing Last
Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently. Padgett Powell
You Military Sets Toughness Develop Almost Like Look Up Children Little Foster Mechanisms Foster Children Differently Things Orphans
An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression. Padgett Powell
Snake Lasting Leaves Impression
When I write, I want something to sound good itself. Padgett Powell
Good Something Write Sound Itself Want
I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't. Padgett Powell
Paper Write Liking Up Anything Who Agreeable
I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded. Padgett Powell
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job. Padgett Powell
Best Day You Book Job Write Day Job Got Accidental Sell Very Going Might Copies Career
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people. Padgett Powell
People Way Direct Direct Way Most Conversations Connect
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices. Padgett Powell
Time Business Long Long Time Addiction Out Seeking Oneself Proper Potential Had Vehicle Call Options Maximizing Human Choice Choices Whole
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales. Padgett Powell
Great Experience Ensure Almost Always Sales Reviews
I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't. Padgett Powell
People Entitled Gone Down Guess Say Would More More Or Less Written Idea Call Were Ends Want Story Pages View Less Sat Thing
They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform. Padgett Powell
Me Lose Lost Those Out About Paris Fact He Checking Got Were Review Stolen Stories Turns Hemingway Platform Nearly
I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this. Padgett Powell
You Emotions Heroes Pure Down Relation Some About Horror Potato Point Beaten Had Stuff Mess Wrote How Woke Lot Up Going Pages Stand Your Fun Sat Kept
Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave. Padgett Powell
Life Christmas Time Failure You Year Unto Were Clock Stops Where Use Your Season Grave
I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped. Padgett Powell
Christmas Parents Spend Presumably Spirit Adult Had House Truest Years Escaped Certain Who Associate
At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts. Padgett Powell
Christmas Good Needs Remember Thought Every Gifts About Give Daughters Fail Failed Shoe Sizes After Hard Who Growing Grown Receive

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