Ilan Stavans Quotes
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
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I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.
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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
