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Alex Garland Quotes

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1970

Topics

Thought Anything Journalist Intend

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

Love Time Beginning I Am Slow Feel

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

John G. D. Clark

History Human Us Able Between Chose

Can we call the essay its own genre if it's so promiscuously versatile? Can we call any genre a 'genre' if, when we read it from different angles and under different shades of light, the differences between it and something else start becoming indistinguishable?

Light Start Differences Shades Own

Vegas is a testing ground for the human soul. What are our values, especially in a time of crisis? Work with Cirque du Soleil, and you learn that quickly. The former socialist street performers who now throw parties by the pool with Brazilian models, oh yes!

Work Time Soul Learn Vegas You

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Robert Metcalfe

Innovation Me World Better Need Up

I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.

Love House Much I Love

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

Women Daughter Power Opinion Voice

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Success Women Live Men Woman Man

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

Good Singing Voice I Can Carry Call

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.

Money Accounting Profit Way Out

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Great Time War Result Attention

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.

Anthony Burgess

Man Back Want London Write Going

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