Quotes about american-author
american-author delighted studios time welcome
I'm delighted. I don't know if he is, but I'm delighted to welcome him back to the show, this time here in person in our studios in L.A. Tavis Smiley
american-author companion found love
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau
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I had spent a summer in Chicago doing community service work and loved the city, so when I finished my undergraduate degree I moved there permanently. Sara Paretsky
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I had an opportunity to meet some members of the public, which I have been doing in Rangoon, too. It was very educational for me.
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I'm very surprised at the high number of boys who have written to say that reading my books was hard work but worth it. I have many loyal boy readers. Beverly Cleary
american-author money
I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough. Jack Vance
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I never saw a computer during that course, I merely looked at the catalogues and the magazines and here was a picture showing a map on a screen. Ted Nelson
american-author crew diverse point progress trying
I'm trying to get to a point here of how much progress we've made in this business. Were you able to find that diverse crew that you wanted?
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I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise. Michael Chabon
american-author insanity
Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children. Sam Levenson
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I'll usually work until about four or five - take a short break mid day to run through the email that's come in or read and post on the boards. Nora Roberts
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I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere. Robert McCloskey
american-author fathers fun people
It's not about divorce, it's about living. I write about life. People sometimes go. Fathers sometimes leave. It's not all fun and games. Paula Danziger
american-author darkness demanding energy far full lucky stories
So far I've been very lucky in that stories have come to me like a thunderstorm, unexpected, full of darkness and energy demanding all my attention. Russell Banks
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Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia. Daniel Yergin
american-author gains loses man profit
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Robert Fulghum
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The garments, in case you can't place them, are fatigue clothes and arctic field jackets. They are are work clothes, but what am I doing? Dashiell Hammett
american-author critics hundred opinions remember reviewers
The critics and reviewers of a hundred years from now, if they remember any of us at all, may have opinions much different from those of today. Fred Saberhagen
american-author broadway few good led others role
The first show I got that was a really big starring role on Broadway was 'Phantom of the Opera.' It led to a few others so it's been a good run. I can't complain.
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The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. Robert Fitzgerald
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The hard part about questions like this is that SF covers such a broad spectrum. There are so many authors who are good at so many different things. Sarah Zettel
american-author both increased momentum moral particles social
The increased momentum of American life, both in its particles and its mass, unquestionably has a considerable moral and social value. Herbert Croly
american-author cannot future illiterate
The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn. Alvin Toffler
american-author published writer
The idea that you are a writer because you're published is also a lie. Andrew Vachss
american-author hard produce understood work
And of course, it's hard to produce a work at the end of those years of solitude, which may or may not be understood or appreciated.
american-author opposite truth
The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag
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These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
american-author food hate junk mainly spend time turn waste
This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
american-author biggest books learned remember word
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - look.
american-author half kinds last week
All kinds of folk, as you can imagine, have had things to say-as you well know-over the last week and a half about what you said.
american-author people realized since
You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense. Jhumpa Lahiri
american-author choice consequences
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.