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Elizabeth Strout Quotes

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

Elizabeth Strout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1956

Topics

Mother Writing Doubt True Knowing

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Jesse Jackson

Community Speak Talking You Poor

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

Amanda Burton

Age People Me Always How Obsessed

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Robert Bly

Life Work Time Man School Tough

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Life Money Start You Sex Become

Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.

Jason Isbell

Music Time People Listen Different

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

Claire Messud

Character Go Serious Question Asking

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Arthur Helps

Overcome Never Danger Sense Been

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

Philip Emeagwali

Me Strong Living Hardship Refugee

Generals don't panic; then the troops never panic.

Shaquille O'Neal

Never Panic Generals Then Troops

When I say that Latinos share conservative values, when Ronald Reagan said that, we mean the love of family, the love of country, a commitment to personal responsibility, to hard work.

Lionel Sosa

Work Family Hard Work Love Values

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

Eric Bana

Time Energy Hand Project My Time

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Ellsworth Kelly

Nature Meaning Everything Constantly