John Edgar Wideman Quotes

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveBusinessHistoryArtI Am

I was in Minnesota and Illinois when I wrote 'How to Leave Hialeah.' When I come to Miami, I'm happy. I don't need to write in Miami.

Jennine Capó Crucet

HappyMiamiWriteNeedLeaveCome

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

Andrew O'Hagan

MeCountryPlaceGenuineMoreCome

I did see 'Gravity,' but I don't have the enthusiasm to go see a movie as often as I used to go.

Robert Osborne

EnthusiasmGoGravitySeeUsedDid

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

Robert Gottlieb

SometimesCriticsAlwaysDisagree

I am on the side of the people.

Michael Gove

I AmPeopleSideAm

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

Amiri Baraka

PeopleMeYouKnowKindNatural

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

Steve Wynn

LivePeopleBubbleStrangeOwnLike

A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.

Trae Young

FamilySchoolTexasGrowYouWant

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Rolf Harris

GoodCarGriefWifeBeardCharity

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Ross MacDonald

MeTryingBackTurnGreatestMyth

I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.

Janet Varney

WorkOpportunityHopeRespectPeople

I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you're already prioritizing the wrong thing. Size is important, but it's a byproduct of a whole bunch of other things that are worth way more of your mental energy - customers, service, quality.

Jason Fried

BusinessServiceQualityStartYou

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