Karl Schroeder Quotes

Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

Karl Schroeder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 4, 1962

Topics

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People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Jerry Seinfeld

PeopleDeserveWhoReadLied

I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

John Lanchester

ThinkStrangeSoundScaryAnything

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Robert Morgan

BestLanguageBecomeInvisible

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.

Anita Desai

PeopleThinkingBetterIndiaAir

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

Michael Franti

GreatViolencePovertyYouCountry

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

Solomon Burke

MeHandsDownJumpingStreetsLines

The secret is not to act, but to be.

Steven Seagal

SecretAct

I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

Trombone Shorty

KnowOldYearsTwentyWordGenre

Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble.

Troy Polamalu

HumbleMomentPerspectiveHurtYou

The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

TravelPracticeCitizenshipTool

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

Tom Rachman

FamilyBeenEverybodyEverybody Else

When you get chickenpox as an adult, it's not a laughing matter.

Robert Whittaker

YouMatterAdultGetLaughing

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