Amitava Kumar Quotes

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

Amitava Kumar

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Book
  • Man

• If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • America
  • Red

• I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Belief
  • Religions
  • Deity

• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Up
  • Great
  • Control

• The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Community

• As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Long
  • Country
  • Ambition

• I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Love
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Brother

• I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Dad
  • Flying
  • Ride

• Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Yeah, she's heard the war stories ... I tell it all to her. I think one has to, because one wants to know somebody, and one wants to feel that somebody knows one. I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Health

• Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.

  

  Roger Jon Ellory
  • Cutting
  • Bitter
  • Coats

• Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Star

• My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • God
  • Mother
  • Friend

• What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Life
  • May
  • Success

• I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

  

  Amitava Kumar
  • Friend
  • Writer
  • Reader