Magic Barrel Quotes

#1. It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

Deborah Eisenberg

#2. Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest.

Lara Adrian

#3. It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.

Stieg Larsson

#4. We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

Lena Headey

#6. I went from barrel to barrel. It was magic. Why hadn't someone told me? With this, life was great, a man was perfect, nothing could touch him.

Charles Bukowski

#7. It was a wilting July evening

Nancy Horan

#8. If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come,
A thief a warrior and a mole.
Though the quest may take its toll,
We'll march until we reach our goal,

Brian Jacques

#10. When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something ... that it sticks with people.

G-Eazy

#11. About the new saga of Camp Half-Blood, Percy continues to narrate the book? Rachel (the new Delphic oracle) will remain on the books (I am Brazilian and I love your books ... I can not wait for the books debut in Portuguese).

Rick Riordan

#12. Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

Stephanie Cutter