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Tom Rachman Quotes

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Tom Rachman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Hope Experience Creative Environment

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

Jenny Zhang

Education Mother Home Myself Me She

It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may as well get the shameless plug over with right away - buy it. You'll like it. It's about a bunch of old ladies who rob a bank.

John Niven

Sunshine Me Week You Go New

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

Steve Erickson

Art Course Manipulative Condemning

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

Sissy Spacek

Details You Forget Movies Them

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

Tommy Hilfiger

Mother Me Kind She Always Take

I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

Jason Mraz

Journey World Weakness Feel Doing

I try to reciprocate and to give back to the fans with my performances, like a big 'thank you' for the love they show me.

Diego Costa

Love Me Thank You You Back Try

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Cornelius Nepos

Government Safe Goodwill Unless

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

Anne Heche

Thought Now More Everything Whatever

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

Wislawa Szymborska

I Am Me Dream Know Him Comparison

Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.

Perianne Boring

Death Dying Industry Economic

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Tullian Tchividjian

Looking Never Only Assurance Christ