"But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer."

-- Anne Tyler

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“My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.”
“No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.”

Source : "Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.
“Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament". genius.com. January 1, 2002.
“Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.”
“He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.”
“The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.”
“I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the value of an outsider's view into a little-known or misunderstood subculture. I tried to do the same thing with my book - tap into a pocket of American life that few people have any idea about, and tell the real, unvarnished truth about it in a way that was open-minded and authentic.”

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