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Harry Mathews Quotes

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 14, 1930

Topics

Poetry Learn Back Write Project Get

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Daughter Dating Watching Over Dollar

Geo-stationary orbit is actually real estate - you can only put so many satellites up there. It's like waterfront property at the beach. Everyone builds the biggest thing they can put up there.

Beach Real Estate You Real Property

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

Good Writing Trying Say Nothing Why

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Story Political Person Personal Tell

You have to have a strong idea for a hit movie, a strong core idea that resonates emotionally. It also has to technically achieve its goal - it's got to be well-written, well-paced, and interestingly told.

Strong You Goal Achieve Core Idea

You don't want to have any disagreements with a friend, you know? Not disagreements that become public record and that you still have to answer questions about 10 years later.

Friend Questions You Know Want

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Leadership Self True Touch First

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Wife Travel Name Early Holiday Go

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

Myself Thought Always Painter

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

Path School Think Others Anything

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

People Name Go Teachers English Who

The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.

Life Nature Men Man King Hands

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