Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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BestStorySayWithoutFineJust

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.

Joel Parkinson

TogetherWorldGrowYouWayHeat

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Andrew Gross

FamilyTruthHeroPeopleYouBelief

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

FamilyAmericanSomeonePossibleGot

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'

Michael Enzi

MeYouFindTaxNowSay

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Sol LeWitt

ArtWallEarthDevelopmentOutJust

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

Colm Toibin

GoodGodThinkThinkingClothesOut

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

CuriosityFactsEnjoyMoreReflect

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

Alicia Keys

MusicBlueMeFeelDarkPlay

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

Peter Tork

NothingAshamedWellKnewDidHow

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Seth Lloyd

UniverseWhyComplexHereWould

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

Scott Dixon

TruthChildrenChildThoughtsMagic

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

ManMindCompanyKnownHisKeeps

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