#about

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

#angel #book #classroom #comes #descends

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. ↗

— Richard Price

#chance #fly #how #i #i do

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

#acknowledged #book #center #character #integrate

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use. ↗

— Charley Pride

#attitude #better #could #else #how

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. ↗

— Charley Pride

#charge #entertainer #gives #intimacy #opry

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#i #i can #least #name #names

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#academic #been #haven #i #kind

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#after #days #directing #fantasy #i

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#backwards #come #curious #forward #grandparents

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire