Rached Show Quotes & Sayings

Students love trying to imitate Nabokov, which teaches them a lot - mostly about why not to imitate somebody wired so differently from yourself. Nabokov wannabes don't sound just like turds, but like pretentious turds. The writer's best voice will grow from embracing her own "you-ness" - which I call talent, and which is best expressed in voice. Which — Mary Karr

From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole. — George Gaylord Simpson

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands ... Relations are what matter most. — Michael Pollan

When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit. — James Nesbitt

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. — Marilyn Hacker

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably — Kevin Keegan

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way. — Jodi Picoult

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful. — Napoleon Bonaparte