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Howard Jacobson Quotes

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1942

Topics

Interesting Play Nothing More Affair

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Research Writing You Down Go Matter

Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen.

Life Kitchen Everything Life Happens

People know my story - how I started like they did and that I struggled with things, like being a working mom. They ask me things they wouldn't ask anyone else.

Ann-Marie Campbell

People Me Mom Story Know Ask

I'm always hungry. I can be better always.

Better I Can Always Hungry

No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.

More FBI Aware Agency Sensitive How

Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

Funny Time Think You Look Back

There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.

Life Time Cooking People You Look

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

God Death People Me Believe Person

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Women Only Joyce

Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.

Jonathan Anderson

Community Me Important Craft British

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Die Africa Well Majority AIDS Virus

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

Today Quality People Youth Black

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