Michael Kroft > Michael's Quotes

“I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books”
― Michael Kroft

“You said a formal dinner was where we dress up!" explained the little boy behind the monkey mask.”
― Michael Kroft, On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy

“Dear, she's not tolerant at all of our being Jewish," said Mrs. Rosen. "She has no problem with it that requires any.”
― Michael Kroft, On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy

“Since writing, I've learnt to truly appreciate COLD coffee. If the second or third sip is cold, I lost track of time and was in my groove.”
― Michael Kroft

“To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The end.”
― Michael Kroft

“Imagination is the first step to escapism....”
― Sultry Summers

“I think finding that happy medium is pretty much impossible. I have never seen or heard of a cheerful ghost talker.”
― Michael Kroft

“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.”
― Michael Kroft

“If a novel doesn't have well-developed three-dimensional principal characters, wouldn't it be a graphic novel without the graphics?”
― Michael Kroft

“I always get the strangest looks when I tell people that I enjoy purposely staining sheets of paper with many tiny blotches of permanent ink.”
― Michael Kroft

“Just because you're aware that you're a nincompoop, doesn't make you any less of one.”
― Michael Kroft, On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy

“I want to be -That guy who wrote that thing there,- but I'm currently, -He's who, who wrote what?-”
― Michael Kroft

“The only big drawback to writing is its negative impact on reading.”
― Michael Kroft

“You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist.”
― Michael Kroft

“At middle age, I decide to give up on my dream of being an astronaut and follow my second, to be a writer. Also, I heard there was no smoking in the space station.”
― Michael Kroft

“I don't so much believe in Political correctness as I do in Public Correctness. People tend speak quite "different" in the secure comfort of their home.”
― Michael Kroft

“Novelist: A person who has more than a dozen novels in the works and thinks it would be novel to finish one.”
― Michael Kroft

“Oxford comma or Harvard comma? Why not just call it a highly educated comma and leave it at that?”
― Michael Kroft

“If I was to write a novel about the paranormal, I think I would want to use a ghostwriter for greater impact.”
― Michael Kroft

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain