Chris Abani Quotes

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

Chris Abani

• Book
• Interesting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Always

• Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Politicians
  • Useless

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Nothing
  • Without

• If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Spring

• I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Period

• Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Money
  • Answer
  • Most

• The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Money

• I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Book
  • Interesting