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Damon Galgut Quotes

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

Damon Galgut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: south african
Birth: November 12, 1963

Topics

Writing Battle India Years Greatest

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Jimmy Breslin

Football Trumpet Played Could Draw

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Jerome K. Jerome

Sweet Kisses Must Like Stolen

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Stephen Hawking

Science America Enthusiasm More Here

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Robert Fripp

Language Possible Representation Fact

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

Rob Lowe

Parents Me Mom Present Divorce She

I have an A rating from the NRA.

Ronnie Musgrove

NRA Rating

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.

Mike Nichols

Change Character Great Enjoy You

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

Michael Moriarty

Law Law Enforcement Society America

The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.

Jon Krakauer

Beautiful Light Me Free You Earth

When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

Johnny Flynn

Me Feel London Talk First Names

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

Dennis Farina

Believe Television Know I Believe

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Chelsea Clinton

Myself World Think You Ask Starting