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Claire Messud Quotes

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

Claire Messud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Character Go Serious Question Asking

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

Jim Harrison

Reading American Nothing Whatever

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Love Poetry Me Writing Reading Out

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Johan Huizinga

Understanding Judgment Standards Well

When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and spitting in the key of the organ. When looping, you're in key, you're in a rhythm, you're in a pocket, and that's where James Brown was pulling from, and so that's where I'm pulling from. The only difference is I'm coming at it under hip-hop.

Anderson Paak

Key You Hip-Hop Difference Rhythm

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Anna Julia Cooper

Life More Something Must Speculation

Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

Jeffrey Deitch

Art Challenge Best Perception You

It's always a daily struggle to write.

Michael Cimino

Daily Struggle Write Always

We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.

Amy Klobuchar

Moving Done Ahead Economy Things

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

Queen Hands Long Way Bus Going

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Rattner

Health Retirement Insurance Mortgage

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Romola Garai

Childhood Storm Child Black Horse

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Jayson Blair

Good Forgiveness Hope I Am Situation