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I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord. -- R.L. Burnside Obiturary, … quotes/451

Yellow Dog isn't bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. It's not-knowing-where-to-look bad. I was reading my copy on the Tube and I was terrified … quotes/309

I tend to send my copy in on deadline, which by New Yorker standards is tacky. It has to go through three or four proofs. The fact-checkers proof; the … quotes/282

I never meet my subject matter. It's one of the advantages of living in Britain, a curious arrangement that has worked very well. Sometimes I go over … quotes/281

I've only once done the literary pilgrimage thing. We were down in Dorset and passed a sign for East Coker. Supposedly I'm an Eliot groupie, which these … quotes/280

The truth is, that if you're working on a piece at three in the morning, you're not Keats; you're just late. The glitch in this argument is that I'm not … quotes/279

Mr Gearin-Tosh's prose is easy to read, his paragraphs being shorter, on average, than those found in our tabloid newspapers. -- http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/03/19/botosh19.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/03/19/ixbooks.html dalrymple/10