Teju Cole Quotes

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

Teju Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: June 27, 1975

Topics

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I remember my mom saying that when I was little, I had this light that shined really big, and that she'd watched my light become very dark.

Jodie Sweetin

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When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.

Jeryl Prescott

SchoolManagementBackGoElectrical

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.

Melissa Rosenberg

ChangeCharacterGreatTimeBookUp

A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.

Maz Jobrani

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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

Megan Abbott

CrimeConsiderNovelsAnyReally

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

Maureen O'Hara

SoulToughDeepMy SoulAboveElse

I think, in every person's life, you have ups and downs. You learn so much about yourself, sometimes even more, in the down times. Unfortunately, I had to go through it in public, which was not easy.

Ana Ivanovic

LifeYourselfThinkUps And Downs

Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.

Sissy Spacek

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Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Tom Chapin

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You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Roger Goodell

DoingYouKnowAlwaysThings

The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation.

Robert Zubrin

PowerGenerationTransportationNew

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Michael Smith

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