Rabih Alameddine Quotes

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

Rabih Alameddine

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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Life
- American
- Eating
Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

La'Porsha Renae
- Up
- You
- Sometimes
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum
- Life
- Money
- Fire
Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

Flavor Flav
- Up
- Good
- Trying
Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

M. J. Rose
- Up
- Wind
- Marketing
One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan
- Book
- College
- Graduation