John Kessel Quotes

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

John Kessel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 24, 1950

Topics

WorldInevitableFirstHimRealism

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

Jimmy Carter

MeGrandchildrenYoungKeep

We offer an extremely controlled, disciplined, and completely systematic franchise package.

Jimmy John Liautaud

OfferPackageFranchiseDisciplined

Football is a sport I have fun with, but I play it, and that's all. I never watch games and know nothing about what's going on in the sport.

Mauro Icardi

FootballFunHave FunPlayKnow

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

Michael Franti

GoodMusicSleepMeFeel GoodFeet

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsReadingFriendsYouBad

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Tony DiTerlizzi

TechnologyMindSurviveEvolution

I had to leave my three-year acting course at Guildhall a little early to start filming Chris Nolan's 'Dunkirk.' It was an absolute dream come true.

Tom Glynn-Carney

StartEarlyDreamActingTrueLeave

My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.'

Mary Steenburgen

SonNightMoviesGroupTwoSit

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.

Jason Kander

VotingPoliticalStrategyPartyBeen

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

Diego Klattenhoff

MoneyTreesYouDownUpAnything

My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

Peter Fenton

TeamPartnershipMentorStructure

We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the same kinds of stories.

Letitia Wright

PeopleWritingMoreNeedSameSee

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