Don Silver Quotations

I worked on inventing their connection and how the 60s influenced their lives. It helps that I've always been an extravagant liar,

I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it was going, but eventually I figured it out,

I forced myself to write every day, seven days a week for as much time as I could spare,

I focused on the stories of individual people rather than making this a kind of polemic,

I was 12 in 1968. From a serious kid's vantage point this was a terrifying time to grow up,

Someone didn't take their slot and the director called me and asked me to join. I had the feeling that this was my shot. When I overcame my feelings of inferiority I realized that this was a gift,

That was the start of an incredible year,

We do look and see how the company did, the longevity of the employee and their performance.

When I realized when (Stardust) was born, that sort of ignited an interest I had in the late '60s, ... I've had it all my life, having just missed that period.

We try to budget at least as much as we've paid the prior year.

After I got sick and beat it I decided I was going to write because that is what I really wanted to do.

A lot of people spent a lot of time and worked very, very hard. I think it's excellent because the library is the anchor of the community.

They're all important. Without all of them, we couldn't be able to perform like we do.

It made a mockery of everything that came before ideologically. There was no message to their actions.

I really feel like the dark side of the '60s began in that period, ... I wanted to explore that and show how that might have affected individuals, or how individuals had their lives changed by that shift. ... I do feel that a lot of the promise of the '60s was not only unfulfilled, but broken.