Quotes by Davy Rothbart

“It was really spooky. I dont know if that says something about Richmond greater as a whole, ... I have to give Richmond props for being the home to the scariest homemade haunted house Ive ever been to.”

“[Those are] three things I have experience with or three things that affect me a lot, ... Love is something thats always on my mind. I taught creative writing at a prison for a few years [and] I love exploring.”

“Im excited to share these Lone Surfer stories because Ive always wanted to be a writer since I was a little kid, ... Its a big thrill to see the book on the shelf and share these stories.”

“Its a pretty raucous event,”

“[Stuff thats published in Found is] anything that gives you a glimpse into someone elses life,”

“It was so angry, yet so hopeful and in love, and it wasnt even his car. It was mine, ... I started sharing it with people and wished I could share it with more people.”

“Its easy to see other people and to think they must be different than us, but the more you read these notes, the more you see the similarities between [people], ... It could be the president of some company. [The author] could be writing from inside a prison and the language they use to communicate may be a little different, but the things theyre experiencing are the same emotions that everyone feels.”

Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how to kiss, reading out loud to herself, so absorbed by the story, singing sadly in the tub, building a fort from the junked cars out in the meadow, by herself in the front row at the black-and-white movies or in the alley, gazing at an eddy of cigarette stubs and trash and fall leaves, smoking her first cigarette at dusk by a pile of dead brush in the desert, then wishing at the stars--she was all of them, and she was so much more that just just her that I still didnt know.