Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's the family you choose that counts.
Andrew Vachss
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
Counts
Choose
Family
More quotes by Andrew Vachss
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
Andrew Vachss
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
Andrew Vachss
I don't sign contracts for my books.
Andrew Vachss
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
Andrew Vachss
I think people should be consumers of journalism.
Andrew Vachss
A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
Andrew Vachss
He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
Andrew Vachss
I don't take advances for my books.
Andrew Vachss
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
Andrew Vachss
Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand, the father had told his adoring son. And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone. ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne
Andrew Vachss
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
Andrew Vachss
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
Andrew Vachss
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
Andrew Vachss
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
Andrew Vachss
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
Andrew Vachss
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
Andrew Vachss
Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
Andrew Vachss
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
Andrew Vachss
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
Andrew Vachss