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Hisham Matar Quotes

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Imagination Reality Filters Like

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

Time Award Feeling Person First Time

We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don't normally talk about. Like, we'd love to get Kim Kardashian to talk to us about finance. She is a businesswoman, after all.

Jennifer Konner

Love Finance Want Talk She Things

My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.

Style Action Feel Driving Audience

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

Life Fear Courage Great Art Pain

I've always been interested in this notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

Culture Emotions Why Emotional Been

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

Michael Cudlitz

Person Actor More Company Working

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

Fruit Diet Lifestyle Maintenance

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

Red Red Lipstick Lipstick Out Womb

I don't have a go-to move, man; I just rush.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Man Move Rush Just

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

Jonathan Carroll

Today Writing Think Feel Privilege

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

Know Done Say Nothing Vocabulary

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

Happiness Creativity Think Thought

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