Simon Mainwaring Quotes

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

Simon Mainwaring

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: 1967

Topics

PeopleClassPoorFallingOutRanks

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Jim Harrison

WriteBecauseLooseLikeProse

The things people are ashamed of come through in whatever their outerwear is. I suppose I am always looking for that, even if it's somebody who, on the outside, seems to be perfect.

Jessie Buckley

I AmPeopleLookingPerfectOutside

In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day.

Robert Pattinson

DayWorldAmericaWatchDumbest

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

Michael Cunningham

FeelWayNeedOverYearsSeem

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.

Sophie Hunger

MotherMusicBabyReadingConnection

If we want every car on the road to be a Lyft, we need to make it incredibly convenient for drivers.

Logan Green

CarRoadWantNeedMakeDrivers

I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven very well for me.

Chelsea Handler

FightMePersonKindEmbraceTry

The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief and incredible rage. And that verdict not only let George Zimmerman go home to his family, but it sent a message to black people everywhere that our lives did not matter.

Alicia Garza

FamilyHomeGriefPeopleWorldGo

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

William Landay

GoodConflictHighDrivenTension

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

Wynton Marsalis

GoodScienceMindHelpYouEvidence

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Alfred Nobel

JusticeImaginationOnlyFound

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

Sydney Pollack

VisionTimeArchitectureSpaceYou

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