Jennifer Armintrout Quotes

I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

Jennifer Armintrout

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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Quentin Crisp
- You
- Never
- Sex
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Time
- Work
- Book
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam
- Action
- Worry
- Optimism
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Work
- Fall
- Three
I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

Ziad Doueiri
- Work
- Music
- Real
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Karl Liebknecht
- Believe
- History
- Struggle