Jason Reynolds Quotes

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

Jason Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 6, 1983

Topics

UpBeingMineBooksLikeKids

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

Jello Biafra

GoodFeelingsLaborCivil RightsHe

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Matt Reeves

ImaginationPeopleCreatingTool

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

Jeffrey Eugenides

BeautifulWritingThinkEndYou

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

Sue Townsend

ListenViolinSameOverAgainMajor

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sun Myung Moon

WomenPeaceWomanManBrotherWorld

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

DanceI AmInevitableNeverOldUp

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Lucretius

EternitySumSums

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

Julia Glass

LoveGoodWritingStartBookBack

Social realism takes research.

Debra Granik

ResearchSocialRealismTakes

I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

Chelsea Clinton

FriendHopeChildrenBestBelieve

I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.

Chrystia Freeland

PeopleTalkingAlwaysOutHanging

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

Brian O'Driscoll

DownWillMoreHardChaseIreland

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