2010 In Literature Quotes

#1. How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If you want to be successful in the world of trade and commerce, then you must look successful.

Petra Durst-Benning

#2. That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Tariq Ali

#3. I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.

Connie Willis

#4. I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Juliana Hatfield

#5. No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.

Connie Willis

#6. Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

Mahmoud Darwish

#7. It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.

Juliana Hatfield

#8. As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

John Swartzwelder

#9. Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#10. Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse.

Leo Tolstoy