"As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there."

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Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com

Adam Haslett

#Jobs Quotes #Judging Quotes #Reader Quotes

“One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, â€œLook at the hips on her.â€ I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didnâ€™t know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be â€œincorrectâ€ on a womanâ€™s body.”
“You've got to earn respect as life goes on.”
“I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.”
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

Source : The Neurotic's Notebook ch. 7 (1963)
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”
“One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.”

Source : "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.
“Donâ€™t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. Thatâ€™s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasnâ€™t it?â€ â€œNo,â€ I said. She raised an eyebrow. â€œIt must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldnâ€™t you?â€ Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. â€œArenâ€™t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?â€ She rolled her eyes. â€œNo, youâ€™re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.”
“I'm dedicating my time to going on tour and basically juggling music, modeling, and being a mother. Being a mother is obviously the most important.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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