Robert Giroux Quotes

Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast.

Robert Giroux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 8, 1914 - September 5, 2008

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BeginningEasyFastAlwaysSinger

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

Ann Nocenti

CollegeStoryBackPlaceHospital

Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

Sigmar Gabriel

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Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

WomenMenGovernmentDivisionHalf

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

Judy Blume

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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Jared Diamond

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If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.'

Jon Scieszka

DayWritingYouBadI CanSay

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

Jolene Blalock

EverythingRecklessAbandon

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Desmond Tutu

RichKnowAfricaEuropeBecause

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Dorothy Allison

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For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.

Bruno Dumont

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Art is science made clear.

Wilson Mizner

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Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Sharon Stone

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