John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1941

Topics

SportsFunWritingWriteAlways

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

Joan Didion

StartFeelBackGoPageNeed

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

John Boehner

PeopleAmericanCountryWillCome

I live in Paris, a city where you have a lot of stylish women, so I learned a lot by observing the women in the street. But my mother was always a big influence as well; she is always very feminine in high heels and perfectly cut dresses, with perfect makeup but never too much.

Jeanne Damas

MotherWomenLiveCityStylishYou

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Steve Chabot

CityDownPlayGroupLoudestBuy

I like being a mother.

Amanda Abbington

MotherBeingLike

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

Stephanie Beacham

MoneySpeakLanguageHolidayDrama

When MUDs appeared, that was an entirely novel experience, and often an addictive one. Long before Twitter or Snapchat, MUDs inspired the moral panic of the moment: a 1993 'Wired' article titled 'The Dragon Ate My Homework' described university students losing themselves in these virtual worlds. Keep in mind: they were just words on a screen.

Robin Sloan

MomentExperienceWordsLosingMind

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

TimeConsistencySatisfactionSame

Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.

Michel Gondry

LifeOpportunityPeopleThinkYou

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Jose Bergamin

DoubtPlaceBeliefSuperstition

In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'

Chris Hardwick

TimeCreativityMeBetter PersonEnd

I look for friends who make me laugh.

Christian Lacroix

MeLaughFriendsLookMake Me Laugh

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