Hiroshi Fujiwara Quotes

#1. As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice guy in private. I mean I like the guy; he's a terrific writer. I've published two of his books. Baraka is one of these fundamentalists who is prone to idol worship.

Ishmael Reed

#2. If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

Jim Coleman

#3. I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#5. Winning is a science, educate yourself to win .

Sandeep Kakkar

#6. We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

Aesop

#7. All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

V.S. Naipaul

#8. Peaks cannot exist without valleys.

Rabih Alameddine

#9. A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

Nelson Algren

#10. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.

Ian McEwan

#11. The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

Pete Rose

#12. Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it's a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that's not really a choice at all.

David Arnold

#13. Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Theodor Adorno

#14. Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.

David Harsanyi