Middlesteins Quotes

#1. I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Jami Attenberg

#2. My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Alan Cohen

#4. If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

George Jones

#5. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do. But it isn't.

Meg Jay

#6. What you think of me does not change who I am.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Yes' is a very powerful word. It's like opening a door. It's like fanning a flame. It's the most powerful word in the world.

Kenneth Oppel

#8. Even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn't being naked, not really. It's just showing skin.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Sean Astin

#10. I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

Ira Sachs

#11. Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

Leo Tolstoy