Quotes
Authors
Ted Kooser

"I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve. I'd seated myself on a piano bench, and discovered upon attempting to arise at the end that the varnish had softened and I was stuck fast. The hinge was to the front, under my knees, so that as I tried to get up, I merely opened the lid."

-- Ted Kooser

#Reading Quotes #Piano Quotes #Benches Quotes

“The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.”
“When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.”
“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Source : Source: m.motherjones.com
“All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.”
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”

Source : Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.39, Canongate Books
“The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.”
“... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.”
“Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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