Thomas Mallon Quotes

• Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

  Thomas Mallon

  Distance, Letters, Mail

  Thomas Mallon (2009). “Yours Ever: People and Their Letters”, p.3, Vintage

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• My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

  Thomas Mallon

  Block, Writing, Ambition

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• Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

  Thomas Mallon

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

  Interview with Shannon Powers, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

  Thomas Mallon

  Book, Thinking

  "Writing Thomas". Interview with John J. Miller, www.nationalreview.com. May 01, 2007.

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Wall, Sleep, Paris

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• American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

  Thomas Mallon

  Personality, Presidential, Students

  "Born To Do It" by Thomas Mallon, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

  Thomas Mallon

  Sailing, Fiction, World

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• Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

  Thomas Mallon

  Trying, Way, Novel

  "A Q&A With Thomas Mallon". Texasmonthly Interview, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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