"I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant families who live in Delaware. I'm interested in reading things from different perspectives."

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Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

Laila Lalami

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Two Quotes

“I think anonymity on the internet has to go away,”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.”
“Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.”

Source : Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.155
“Mickey Mantle was baseball.”
“As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.”

Source : Source: nehandaradio.com
“It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.' But I was obsessed with the idea of taking a sound and completely phenomenologically thrashing it."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.”
“Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.”

Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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