Jon Katz Quotes

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

Pets are supposedly a great way to meet people.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience.

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.

I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'

The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.

If you make friends with dogs, they can be really cute!

I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

Having had so many human rats in my life, I don't think I'm scared of the animal variety.

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

Pets have made us better.

I couldn't live without my faithful companion, Megs the dog.

Sally Gardner must drive her publishers to distraction: no sooner have they worked out how to market one brilliant book than she delivers another that is just as brilliant but totally different.

Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.

I love dogs more than most people I've met.

Family is family. I grew up in a household where all the four-legged animals were as important as the two-legged animals.

I like dogs because they are not humans.

My pug dog, Princess, is something else; she's my baby. I've had her for about 14 and a half years. They usually don't live any longer than 15, but I don't believe that. As long as you treat them right, they will live a long time.

If I'm writing books, I'm a 'New York Times' bestseller - how do I do it all? I don't know.

Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.