Steven Brust Quotes

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 23, 1955

Topics

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Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.

Andrew Solomon

YourselfIdentityWorldBuilding

I'm sick of the treadmill.

Andrea Martin

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I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and always have an album out. They don't have actual lives, in my opinion. I feel like I'm so much more than being famous and meeting a musical quota. And I don't know, just the weight of the scrutiny and attention is too weird for me.

Maxwell

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To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Robert Southey

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I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

John Hume

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In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

Amish Tripathi

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Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

Joshua Cohen

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History can just be so unkind as time passes.

Joshua Henry

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I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

Joseph Bruchac

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Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

Desi Arnaz

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Movies are not about a person; they're about a relationship. All of them are about a relationship.

Christopher Miller

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To be successful, one must take chances.

Willie Stargell

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