Dean Wareham > Dean's Quotes

“Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.”
― Vijay Seshadri

“But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“The wife reads about something called “the wayward fog” on the Internet. The one who has the affair becomes enveloped in it. His old life and wife become unbearably irritating. His possible new life seems a shimmering dream. All of this has to do with chemicals in the brain, allegedly.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation