About Dogs Quotes

People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.
- Lee Child

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
- Paulo Coelho

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
- Tory Burch

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton

They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never -EVER- let into the house. I loved this particularly fine thing about dogs: Despite a lifetime of denied entrance, hope never died in their hearts.
- Jacqueline Kelly

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.
- Ann Landers

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
- John Osborne