10 Quotes & Sayings By Dean Young

Dean Young is an American author who has written fifteen novels, including the series The Atlantic. His novels include Behind the Narrow Door, The Infernal Pit, and The Beloved (nominated for a National Book Award), which was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1999. He is the author of numerous short stories, including "Sweetwater," which won the O. Henry Award in 1999 Read more

Some of his stories have also been published in magazines, including Esquire and Playboy. Young's latest novel, The Godfather of Kansas City, was published in 2007.

When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30%...
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When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30% is reserved for hope /which is doubt turned upside-down. Dean Young
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‎I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window. Dean Young
You bend the nail But keep hammering because Hammering makes...
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You bend the nail But keep hammering because Hammering makes the world Dean Young
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Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers Dean Young
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Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. Dean Young
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You start with a darkness to move throughbut sometimes the darkness moves through you. Dean Young
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I still love the sound of breaking, the tearing of the page Dean Young
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Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages. Dean Young
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Everyone says, Come to your senses, and I do, of you. Every touch electric, every taste you, every smell, even burning sugar, everycry and laugh. Toothpicked samplesat the farmers’ market, every melon, plum, I come undone, undone. Dean Young