Alan Cheuse Quotes

We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

Alan Cheuse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 23, 1940 - July 31, 2015

Topics

WorldWantLineFictionHistorians

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.

Ruchi Sanghvi

LoveProblemsDataGoalDownWay

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

Julia Leigh

WorkWritingStoryThinkYouRight

I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Jasper Carrott

LifeMarriageSimpleHappyLooking

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

Chris Evert

AgeCoolYoungOverCarryMiss

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

Corey Feldman

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We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Chuck Schumer

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It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Brendan Behan

RespectIrishEverythingCynical

Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.

Anne Wojcicki

RelationshipAlwaysConsumersDirect

The blockchain is an asset normalization platform that can enable a new liquidity in transactions, hence creating large networks of usage and value effects with benefits in speed, cost, quality, or outcomes.

William Mougayar

QualityValueSpeedCreatingNew

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

Suzanne Collins

TimeWarPeopleMovingControlLong

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you're exposing yourself, and you're expressing your emotions, and those are the key attributes to a big record that really connect with people.

Scott Borchetta

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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

Scott Thompson

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