David Hewson Quotes

• A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

  David Hewson

  Horse, Children, Bed

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• In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

  David Hewson

  Men, Vanity, Focus

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• It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

  David Hewson

  Home, Long, Sometimes

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• There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

  David Hewson

  Believe, Writing, Luck

  David Hewson (2012). “Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel”, p.227, A&C Black

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• The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

  David Hewson

  Long, Sheets, My Own

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• What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

  David Hewson

  Pain, Fire, One Day

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• Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

  David Hewson

  Children, Talking, Audio

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