34 Quotes by John Dalton

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening...

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

The people need to know why it has taken so long to try this case,

Nobody ever contacted me, ... I heard after the fact that Chris got the endorsement. ... I didn't even get the opportunity to speak to them.

I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.

I think (banks) are doing better today than they were yesterday, and clearly they need to be doing better tomorrow.