Adam Haslett: 9 Quotes by the Fiction Writer

Fiction Writer
born 1970
9 quotes

Adam Haslett, Fiction Writer (born 1970), is quoted 9 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Thinking, Jobs, Judging and Character.

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Discovery is the joy.
Adam Haslett / Fiction Writer
Discovery
Joy
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Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
Adam Haslett / Fiction Writer
Court
Deranged
Ends
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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
Adam Haslett / Fiction Writer
Depression
Achievement
Negative
Thinking
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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
Adam Haslett / Fiction Writer
Jobs
Judging
Reader
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My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
Adam Haslett / Fiction Writer
Character
Judging
Mind
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If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.
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Bars
Indecision
Shooting
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