Michael Dirda Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin. – Michael Dirda Beach Quotes Blank Quotes Books Quotes Cabin Quotes Drink Quotes Hill Quotes Hot Quotes Lemon Quotes Lifeguard Quotes Notebook Quotes Practice Quotes Sketching Quotes Slice Quotes Summer Quotes Vista Quotes A reviewer’s lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey’s ‘The Runaway Soul’ despite the novel’s consummate, unmitigated tedium. Summertime, and the reading is easy… Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.
Matthew Sweet Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it’s grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I’m not someone that thinks everything should stop growing. – Matthew Sweet
Brian Fallon I’m one of those people who, even if I’m invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I’m not supposed to be there. – Brian Fallon
Samantha Morton I’m an actor. That’s what I’m gifted at. It’s what makes me breathe. – Samantha Morton
N K Jemisin Readers seem to really like the fact that what I’m writing is not traditional fantasy. – N K Jemisin
Samuel Eto'o I have been to the States many times. What I enjoy most is the feeling of being undercover, that no one recognizes me. When I go to the airport almost anywhere in Europe or Africa, I am recognized. – Samuel Eto’o
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