Captive Quotes

“You’re a puppet master. You make unworthy, uninteresting, vapid people sound like paragons of virtue.” “I’m a writer and a successful one, and I’m sorry I can’t help you.”
― A.A. Paton, Captive

“You pretend to be other people to write their stories.” He made it sound like a bad thing. “Writing is a craft. Not everyone has the time to learn it in a way that makes it commercially viable.” Not everyone knew where to put a semicolon, or in the case of the pop star whose biography I’d just written, that it wasn’t a body part.”
― A.A. Paton, Captive

“I don’t have a spare two weeks for more than two years. That’s how booked out I am. I have commitments and I always keep them. It’s how I earn the big dollars. It’s why, amongst the slim echelons of ghostwriters in the world, I’m famous. It’s why Mr Basketball has waited twelve months to meet me and agreed to sandwich it into a day we were both flying to other cities. My flight left in an hour.”
― A.A. Paton, Captive

“I have no idea who he is but I want him to be mine. He stares at me intensely and I resent how he makes me feel. I’m a successful businesswoman, an icon in my industry. I command enormously generous payments for the work I do. I don’t sit in cafes wondering if I might be drooling over a stranger.”
― A.A. Paton, Captive