Robert Lipsyte Quotes

#1. I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Beck

#2. Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Sam Houston

#3. Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.

Robert Lipsyte

#4. The heart can function but it never entirely heals.

Janet Gurtler

#5. It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

Robert Lipsyte

#6. Accomplishing hard things requires preparation, a realistic understanding of what may be required and a willingness to put forth the effort.

Andi Jones

#7. The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

Robert Lipsyte

#8. Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

Sam Lipsyte

#9. When young people grow up ... they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.

Tite Kubo

#10. Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"

Robert Lipsyte