Atticus Lish Quotes

#1. Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

Sam Lipsyte

#2. I am not always certain that it is I who am the better person, ma petite, but together we are the better person.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. The end is never the end. A new challenge awaits. A test no man could be prepared for. A new hell he must conquer and destroy. A new level of growth he must confront himself. The machine in the ghost within. This is the journey of the man on the moon.

Kid Cudi

#4. I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

LeBron James

#5. With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.

James Baldwin

#6. And then he kissed me.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Meryl Streep

#8. Their job seemed to me so hopeless, so appalling that I wondered how anyone could put up with such a thing when prison was a possible alternative.

George Orwell

#9. I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.

Shaquille O'Neal

#10. Melons, peaches, apples, almonds, dates, Uighurs waiting in the shade, waiting for jobs, waiting for a drink of water, minarets above the rooftops.

Atticus Lish

#11. Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

Victoria Chang

#12. If a girl is traveling in the steppe and she sees nothing but a single moving dot in the great distance, the dot sees her. Stag, man, wolf.

Atticus Lish

#13. A lot of writing is thinking.

Horton Foote

#14. You can't fix me

Garrett Leigh

#15. It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Thomas Merton

#16. In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

Leonard Jacobson