Ayelet Waldman Quotes

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

Topics

FamilyHistoryMemoryWritingMature

I'm here to tell you the coffee was hot, the orange juice was cold, New York's still there and Reagan National is back.

Jim Gilmore

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To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

Jessica Lange

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Baseball is a poorly run business.

Jerry Reinsdorf

BusinessBaseballRunPoorly

For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I had to pay the rent, I needed the roof over our head and food for us to eat and some clothes.

Maye Musk

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But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Stephen King

ChangeTalentThinkYouChooseMore

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.

Rory MacLean

LifeChangeGoodBeginningTravel

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

Maryanne Wolf

ChildrenBeginningBelieveReading

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

Dom DeLuise

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Theft of a firearm should be punished as a felony, plain and simple.

Dianne Feinstein

SimpleTheftShouldPlainPunished

I am an unpredictable journey.

Claire Forlani

JourneyI AmUnpredictableAm

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Brian Eno

GoodAnythingPopulistPopular

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

Bobby Cannavale

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