David Rakoff Quotes

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

David Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 27, 1964 - August 9, 2012

Topics

HopeMeEndSayPersonalWrite

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

Jim Dine

RelationshipHeartTimeEasyNever

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs

NatureSparkStoneMoralMoreShe

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

John French Sloan

LifeGoodTimePaintingStartRich

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Maya Angelou

TimeWritingKnowLordMuchHow

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

John Polanyi

KnowledgeMindFactsOnlyPopular

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

Steve Bannon

AdmirerHugeReaganBecame

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Robert Ballard

SeaBlackSurpriseBottomHuge

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Robert Carlyle

MoneyYouWantStickFilmLast

I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.

Josh Malerman

LoveIdeasYouHousePlaceKnow

My goal is to unify the division. Whoever's got those belts, that's who I want.

Deontay Wilder

GoalWantDivisionGotWhoThose

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Aravind Adiga

PowerLimitsPoliticalIndiaStop

I spend about a year between novels.

Anne Tyler

YearBetweenAboutNovelsSpend

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