Alice McDermott Quotes

Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1953

Topics

GreatBookReadingThinkInformation

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Robert South

GreatParentPleasureNovelty

5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.

Michael Dell

WaveEdgeCreateNewWholeNetworks

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Shirley Manson

IntegrityIntelligenceYourselfTry

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Tom Kristensen

WorkAloneGreatTeamBetter Person

I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.

Robert Wilson

ValueThinkAmericaAheadOpera

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

Ron D. Burton

ChangeOpportunityChallengeIdeas

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Martin Sheen

LifePoliticsPeopleTryingBecome

It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

Michelle Malkin

AgeTimeRetirementGenerationNew

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Michael Ondaatje

PenTorchWriterBlowInsteadUses

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

Joyce Meyer

MoneyPeopleHelpTelevisionMean

I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don't really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes.

Derek Cianfrance

DarknessJobFeelDemonsArtistOwn

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Christopher Hitchens

LonelinessMeUpConceptExile

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