Mabanckou Alain Quotes

#1. Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Og Mandino

#2. I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

Tasha Smith

#3. Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Oprah Winfrey

#4. Will night never come?

Samuel Beckett

#5. I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

David Sarnoff

#6. I love to smile.

Inge De Bruijn

#7. I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

Paula Poundstone

#8. No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

F.K. Preston

#9. Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for ... [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.

Zoe Whittall

#10. Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

Michael Pollan

#11. You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

Walter Kirn

#12. I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life?

Alain Mabanckou

#13. You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Amy Chua