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Paul Theroux Quotes

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

Paul Theroux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 10, 1941

Topics

Life Truth Experience Think Desire

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

Anna Lee

I Am America Now Never Star Been

To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

Jean Smart

Moment Me Play Important Sometimes

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

Steve Coogan

Choices Interesting Way Try Safe

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

Michelle Malkin

Eating Road Political Media House

On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.

Michael T. Flynn

Love People You Gay Know Mean

The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!

Mitch Hewer

Myself Day Me Down Will Big

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

Chester Brown

Influence Reading Years Degree Stuff

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Colin R. Davis

Work Stand Doing Back Way Try

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Boris Spassky

Knowledge Literature Chess His Bobby

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Bruce Lee

Simplicity Me Easy True Nothing Way

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

Powers Boothe

Family School College Go First Side

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

Timothy Noah

Education Commitment World Better