Quotes About Rubem

#1. If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.

M.J. Rose

#2. I believe that theology is facing the abyss.
I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Mev Puleo

#3. I am very active on Twitter and one thing that keeps popping up is "How do I balance having a kid and writing?" And I know it should not be as aggravating, but I know no one ever asks a male writer that. Or, any male that.

Celeste Ng

#4. I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty ... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Mev Puleo

#5. What would you sacrifice for power?

Kiersten White

#6. He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

David Halberstam

#7. National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

Bryant McGill

#8. I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

Mev Puleo

#9. Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. ...do you like to write?"

"No. No writer really likes to write. I like to make love and drink wine. At my age I shouldn't lose time with anything else, but I can't stop writing. It's a disease.

Rubem Fonseca

#11. I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

Sharon Tate

#12. Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.

Rubem Alves

#13. A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

Jonathan Edwards

#14. We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.

Bernard Nathanson

#15. Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.

Rubem Alves

#16. A hand cannot write on itself.

Peter Greenaway

#17. Horrors from beyond the veil of time and space are coming to eat us so shut up, sounds like a pretty good draw card for a leader to have.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#18. There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Rubem Alves

#19. I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Janet Jackson