I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes business enthrall highbrow
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. Dick Cavett hearpersonrare Change image and share on social
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. Dick Cavett intellectuallabelmisunderstand Change image and share on social
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. Dick Cavett chancechildparent Change image and share on social
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships. Sophie Hannah austendickgood Change image and share on social
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it. Pamela Sargent businessconnectdeal share on social
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. Alan Furst boildailydifficulty share on social