Leila Aboulela Quotes

I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

Leila Aboulela

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: 1964

Topics

GreatCreativeMeWritingLibrary

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

Jimmy Greaves

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When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Jeff Koons

PeopleCloseMakeAroundJudgments

The Wellcome Trust is a hugely important organisation, and it is vital that its fundraising continues unabated.

John Sulston

TrustImportantVitalFundraising

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.

Roger McGough

ReadyYoungGotMarriedTooReally

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

Mika

I AmPeopleYouPlaceKindNowhere

If Flavor Flav was any smaller and darker, Brad and Angelina would try to adopt him.

Lisa Lampanelli

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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

Dido Armstrong

RelationshipAloneTimeEndEnjoy

As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the longest and most important week of the campaign. The week doesn't seem to end.

Bob Beckel

EndRememberWeekImportantManager

I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

Anne Taintor

HumorSmallPerfectI CanCardsGet

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

Ashley Greene

MeRestaurantDoorsOutTwilight

My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.

Arthur Potts Dawson

WaterFirePlanPhilosophyEarth

T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since. No one nails urban despair quite like Eliot.

Penelope Mitchell

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