Amy Waldman Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 – confusion even. And I think that’s hard to capture in journalism. – Amy Waldman Ambivalence Quotes Capture Quotes Conflict Quotes Confusion Quotes Contradiction Quotes Fiction Quotes Hard Quotes Internal Quotes Journalism Quotes Lot Quotes People Quotes Sums Quotes I read Claire Messud’s ‘The Emperor’s Children,’ I read Joseph O’Neill’s ‘Netherland’ – but to me, they’re not 9/11 novels. In ‘The Emperor’s Children,’ 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn’t wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And ‘Netherland’ felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don’t see them as 9/11 novels. I found ‘The Twin’ sitting on a coffee table at a writers’ colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it – weeping – a day later, and I’ve been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Martin Rees All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation. – Martin Rees
Riff Raff I can’t change me and I can’t change other people’s thinking. All I can do is continuously get better. So if I’m doing that, even if somebody doesn’t like me or respect me, I don’t care. – Riff Raff
Natalia LafourcadePatience I had to learn about patience, to let the music get its own spirit and voice. – Natalia Lafourcade
Ruby Rose Fashion is such a weird thing. Growing up, I just made do with whatever I had access to – a lot of hand-me-downs and thrift store shopping. – Ruby Rose
Lupe Fiasco I never want to be an artistic bully, and put myself above anyone else… or be more prestigious than anyone else. You like what you like, and you have to take that as you want it. – Lupe Fiasco
Adam Granduciel I’ve never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the Jazzmaster’s just your comrade on that journey. It can be really subtle, it can be angry, it can be chill. It can be anything. – Adam Granduciel
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