Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

American - Author | -

Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Moment Wait World Small Evening You

I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Live Great New York Thought You New

I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

Garth Risk Hallberg

New York City New More Contact Been

I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

Garth Risk Hallberg

End Want Kind Happen Something Like

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

Garth Risk Hallberg

School Week Student Graduate School

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Thought Literature Things Bug Major

I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Job Writing Media Website First

The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'

Garth Risk Hallberg

Age Driving Why Write Question iPad

You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Yourself Ideas Book Feel You Been

We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Walls Doing Trying Understand Herd

Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Entertainment Audience Since Least

In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Poetry People College Remember Seem

First Prev page 1 234 Next page Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Garth Risk Hallberg quotes