Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Dean Bakopoulos

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Dean Bakopoulos is an American writer, born in Dearborn Heights, Michigan in 1975. He is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and writer-in-residence at Grinnell College. Bakopoulos has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

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In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.

Dean Bakopoulos

The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.

Dean Bakopoulos

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.

Dean Bakopoulos

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

Dean Bakopoulos

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

Dean Bakopoulos

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

Dean Bakopoulos

I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.

Dean Bakopoulos

What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dean Bakopoulos

In real life, I go to the North Shore with my kids for two weeks each summer, and it's a magical place for us. I feel restored there and connected to the ancient, pre - human world in a way that no place else on Earth does for me.

Dean Bakopoulos

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Dean Bakopoulos

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Dean Bakopoulos

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