Amitava Kumar Quotes

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

Amitava Kumar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: March 17, 1963

Topics

NatureWritingThinkPresentYou

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Andrew Young

MeBeenWantedOutspokenJimmy

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

Maya Angelou

FamilyGoodMeBrainBlessedRight

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

Maurice Greene

LifePositiveStandYouPlaceSaid

I do feel it's hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I'm trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.

Angela Duckworth

GreatHumblePeopleEnergyFeelYou

We're stronger than we realize.

Jeannette Walls

StrongerRealizeThan

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Stephen Greenblatt

NameLeftBehindObjectsHeBecame

I will never coach again. I don't want to, but I wouldn't even if I did.

Mike Ditka

WantWillNeverCoachAgainEven

Tell that boy Drake he don't want it with me in 'Fortnite.'

Logic

MeWantBoyTellHeDrake

Policy makers should be compelled to take action given the serious costs of long-term unemployment when overall unemployment is already high. A week of unemployment is worse when it is experienced as part of a longer spell.

Janet Yellen

ActionWeekSeriousPolicyHigh

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

Jordana Brewster

WorkNightYouGoRidiculousAdmire

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

Diana Ross

ListenNeedEverythingOutIndustry

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Dennis Potter

WordsYouTroubleKnowNeverBeen

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