Alexander Theroux Inspirational Quotes (29)

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.