Richard Wright Quotes

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Richard Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960

Topics

LifeDarknessWordsFightWaitTell

Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

Andrea Bocelli

VoiceCrisisListenReasonAlways

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Matt Groening

Never ForgetForgetNeverKidWell

I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.

Amiri Baraka

NameGrandfather

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

Spencer Grammer

SchoolHigh SchoolThoughtKindHigh

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

Tommy Chong

NeverShadesLittleAnythingDaddy

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.

Tony Gilroy

LifeLookingInterestingMy LifeTry

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

Tom Perrotta

MyselfPastOverYearsSeemUsed

The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird.

Jon Watts

PathAmazingWeirdWishHometown

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

Diana Gabaldon

WomenRelationshipMindSomeoneYou

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Dexter Gordon

MusicSoundsReservoir

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

Anne Rice

RelationshipLunchSexyYouLoving

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Pharrell Williams

MusicPerspectiveFirstThingsFan

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