Eliot Schrefer Quotes

Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

Eliot Schrefer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1978

Topics

BookHelpImportantYoungUseless

If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.

Jessie Mueller

GratefulPeopleMeThinkHelpWant

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

Sophie Hannah

PeopleTryingYouRelationships

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

Stokely Carmichael

ManQuestionRaiseCondemnHimself

I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

Trisha Yearwood

HomeBusinessMusicSchoolCollege

That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.

Miranda Otto

MeCoolThoughtOperationsWatchTV

In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

Juan Pablo Galavis

HomeJobPeopleCollegeStayGet

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

Johnny Gimble

BusinessMusicChanceAdviceYou

I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time.

Diane Lane

GoodTimeWinningEndEnjoyYou

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Clayton M. Christensen

MedicalCompromiseAmericanFirst

Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me.

Willie Garson

PeopleMeDoorWorldThinkLook

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

ChangePerfectImproveOften

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

Tucker Max

LifeWritingMy LifeWriteWhatever

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