Andrew Vachss Quotes

• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won’t save you … but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

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• We don’t protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

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• Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

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• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

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• The idea that you’re not a writer until you’re published is a lie.

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• People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

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• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

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• My life is triage.

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• Journalism is what maintains democracy. It’s the force for progressive social change.

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• Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

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• I’m in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

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• I think people should be consumers of journalism.

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• I don’t understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don’t know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

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• I don’t take advances for my books.

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• I don’t sign contracts for my books.

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• I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I’m not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

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• Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

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• A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

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Andrew Vachss (18)

Birth:	19th October, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Novelist, Writer

About

Andrew Henry Vachss is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. He is also a founder and national advisory board member of Protect: The National Association to Protect Children. Before becoming a lawyer, Vachss held many front-line positions in child protection. He was a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, and a New York City social-services caseworker. Andrew Vachss is the author of 25 novels and two collections of short stories, as well as poetry, plays, song lyrics, and graphic novels.

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