Abbass Quotes

#1. We settled in a booth at Bishop's 4th Street Diner, an aging silver zeppelin on the rotary outside the naval base, grungy and stuffed with Betty Boop tchotchkes in the windows. The waitress greeted Abbass familiarly and promptly took her order: a hamburger, rare, and fries.

Marilyn Johnson

#2. Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Desiderius Erasmus

#3. I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

Hiam Abbass

#4. Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, Don't ever do that again!

Ellen Hopkins

#5. My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature.

Hiam Abbass

#6. Simple things don't interest me.

Hiam Abbass

#7. I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

Hiam Abbass

#8. Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

Hiam Abbass

#9. Any system of periodization is thus inevitably social, since our ability to envision the historical watersheds separating one conventional "period" from another is basically a product of being socialized into specific traditions of carving the past.

Eviatar Zerubavel

#10. I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.

Hiam Abbass

#11. Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties.

Erich Fromm

#12. I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

Hiam Abbass

#13. Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.
-Hobbes

Bill Watterson

#14. Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write in one specific place. I'm in New York half the time and Texas half the time, and I work wherever - in my computer bag I have some foam ear plugs that I can put in.

Philipp Meyer

#15. Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. Never question the clouds, they're only bringing the life-giving rain.

Amber Schamel