Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

Tibor Fischer

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I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

Tibor Fischer

thirty secret feet

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Tibor Fischer

up-early effort trying

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

Tibor Fischer

criticism bother book

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

Tibor Fischer

knowing doors world

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Tibor Fischer

stay-cool waiting opportunity

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Tibor Fischer

style quality writing

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.

Tibor Fischer

mind book people

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

Tibor Fischer

london cities new-york

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Tibor Fischer

reviews wells book

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

Tibor Fischer

reader thinking

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

Tibor Fischer

reviews worship

I never could get a proper job.

Tibor Fischer

jobs

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Tibor Fischer

british matter way

Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.

Tibor Fischer

support-systems support men

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Tibor Fischer

issues roles political

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

Tibor Fischer

want attention book

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.

Tibor Fischer

decay cities way

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Tibor Fischer

bells doors people

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

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amount stupidity

Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

Tibor Fischer

doors men order