"That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted."

--

Source : Source: threeguysonebook.com

Adam Haslett

#Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".”
“You expect success, you respect failure.”
“The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence.”
“The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.”
“I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.”
“I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.”
“It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.”
“Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.”

You may also like:

A. J. Jacobs
Journalist
A. Lee Martinez
Author
Adele Parks
Author
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author
James Agee
Author
Jonathan Dee
Novelist
Jonathan Franzen
Novelist
Joy Williams
Singer-songwriter
Sam Lipsyte
Novelist