"I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't."

--

Source : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

Anthony Shadid

#Thinking Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Twisted Quotes

“Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.”
“I would never say someone elseâ€™s film isnâ€™t â€˜a real film.â€™ The quote is inaccurate.”
“The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.”

Source : Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, Colin Tudge (2001). “The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control”, p.298, Harvard University Press
“Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!”
“...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)”
“Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act. We've also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying. The term "cultural-universal" is a complicated one, but I've heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.”
“Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.”

You may also like:

Anne Applebaum
Journalist
Ben Fountain
Fiction writer
Bill Keller
Journalist
Katherine Boo
Journalist
Laura Bush
Former First Lady of the United States
Lynsey Addario
Photojournalist
Marie Colvin
Journalist
Mick Cornett
Mayor of Oklahoma City
Robert Caro
Journalist