Victor LaValle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Iâ€™m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions donâ€™t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.
-- Victor LaValle

#Giving #Want #Monsters
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.
-- Victor LaValle

#Teenage #Boys #Empathy
No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.
-- Victor LaValle

#People #Endurance #Matter
Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.
-- Victor LaValle

#Beautiful #Daughter #Father
The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.
-- Victor LaValle

#Writing #Poverty #Deadline
Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.
-- Victor LaValle

#Pain #Book #Loss
William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you donâ€™t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.
-- Victor LaValle

#Moving #Heart #Adventure
Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.
-- Victor LaValle

#Men #Doubt #Machines
Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
-- Victor LaValle

#Undone #Old Woman #Displeasure
A little style is a good thing, but you canâ€™t trust a person who wonâ€™t be ugly in front of you.
-- Victor LaValle

#Style #Littles #Ugly
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.
-- Victor LaValle

#Character #Writing #Voice
The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
-- Victor LaValle

#Defeated #Poor
Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and itâ€™s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I know you all think it sounds brave, but Iâ€™ll tell you something even braver. To struggle and fight for the ones you love today. And then do it all over again the next day. Every day. For your whole life. Itâ€™s not as romantic, I admit. But it takes a lot of courage to live for someone, too.
-- Victor LaValle

#Struggle #Fighting #Men
There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.
-- Victor LaValle

#Fun #Two #Way

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