35 Quotes by George Plimpton

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves.