Garth Stein Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Race, People

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

• Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Giving, Thumbs

• Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, People, Stories

• These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Pain, Men

• I’ve always felt almost human. I’ve always known that there’s something about me that’s different than other dogs. Sure, I’m stuffed into a dog’s body, but that’s just the shell. It’s what’s inside that’s important. The soul. And my soul is very human.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Soul, Important

  Garth Stein (2011). “Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog”, p.2, Harper Collins

• I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Believe, Men

  Garth Stein (2011). “Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog”, p.18, Harper Collins

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Narrators, Thumbs

• Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Hurt, Long

  "Q & A with Garth". Interview, www.garthstein.com.

• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Art, Rain

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