Michael Lewis Quotes

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

Michael Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1960

Topics

AmbitionBookYouWantSpecialWay

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Jennifer Lopez

MirrorWorldYouMirrors

Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately.

Meghan Daum

WritingPersonalMoreAttractGoing

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

Amanda Bynes

GoodMoviesNeverAlwaysStar

I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.

Tom Stoppard

CommunismFallKnowHappenHappened

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Loudon Wainwright III

LiveSingingSongThinkWineGlass

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

China Mieville

PeopleWayBecomeBooksLikeRead

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

Cheo Hodari Coker

MeHip-HopEverythingTurnOffJust

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

Pharrell Williams

GreatSomethingJustShouldRevered

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

Sebastian Thrun

EducationChangeWillEverythingSee

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

Mario Draghi

BrokenDifferencesInterestWhole

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

Mark Margolis

DeathMeWorldActorTeachersShe

Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.

Justine Musk

WorkTalentPeopleWork EthicInsane

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