Quotes by Doug Dorst

About Doug Dorst:

Doug Dorst is an American novelist, short story writer, and creative writing instructor. Dorst is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He currently teaches at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos.
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-That's kind of sad. -I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone. -You must mind. If you didn't you wouldn't be doing this with me.

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For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.

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Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the one who calls the orchestra's tunes, the one who is offered her choice of danc...

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It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.

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The thing is: you might be right to trust someone at one point, but they can change." "+ in between they must be drifting from trustworthy to not. But you can't tell how far they've drifted until it's too late.

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You might say that S. has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live a life of vigilant somnolence or somnolent vigilantism, to allow himself to be satisfied with Sola in the margins of his manuscripts instead ...

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What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

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It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

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Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The wrinkle of her upper lip? He does not know. Nor does he have any way to tell whether what he is sensing is a fragment of memory, a fra...

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The feeling, for those seconds, is glorious—it reminds him that he is human, that he is so insignificant as to be utterly free, and he is being guided along gracefully, lovingly, by the hand of Nature—and it frees him, however transiently, from a...

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What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

Doug Dorst

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change. -Because the reader changes. -EXACTLY

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Author Bio

  • NameDoug Dorst
  • DescriptionWriter
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist