Kercheval Plus Quotes & Sayings

I've suffered from low self-esteem. — Ken Kercheval

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology. — Reinhard Selten

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds. — Ken Kercheval

Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy. Even if you have never ridden a bike or set foot in the West, this book will make both a part of your life as vivid as any trip you have taken. Daryl Farmer's journey-into the heart of a land, of a time, into the very nature of memory and experience-is one I will never forget. — Jesse Lee Kercheval

My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes
I hate those two things. — Timothy M. Dolan

The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace. — Lauren Groff

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person. — Ken Kercheval

What gives me strength is thinking about my children. — Ken Kercheval

The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive. — Jesse Lee Kercheval

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners. — Philip K. Dick

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it. — Ken Kercheval

[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success. — Michael Kosser

If love is sex
we were in love.
& if love outlasts
the body, then
I am you,
it is fair to say. — Jesse Lee Kercheval

Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops. — Ken Kercheval

Tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters. — David Levithan

Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked. — Ken Kercheval

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. — Louis Leakey

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful. — Ken Kercheval

Is it just me or is Sunday a bizarre night for a first date? All wrong, like Saturday morning or Monday at 2 p.m. — Helen Fielding

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor. — Ken Kercheval