David Milch Quotes

• The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I'm telling myself so I don't set fire to anything.

  David Milch

  Meaningful, Lying, Fire

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• My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

  David Milch

  Spiritual, Religious, Sleep

  "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.

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• Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

  David Milch

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

  David Milch

  Might Use, Trying, Matter

  "Dead in the Water" by Nancy Franklin, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2007.

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• Every man's entitled to hope.

  David Milch

  Men, Every Man, Entitled

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• Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

  David Milch

  Kind, Sin, Accidents

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