Andrea Hirata Quotes

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

Andrea Hirata

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Career
  • Parents

• I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Law
  • Never
  • First

• Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Morning
  • Class
  • Ballet

• That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Training
  • Doing
  • Chicago

• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Age
  • Suffering

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • Best
  • Marriage

• Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Culture
  • India
  • Where

• Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Man
  • Know
  • Doing

• For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Moments

• You can't fake being able to cook well.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Fake
  • Cook

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Artist
  • Find
  • Now

• I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Enjoy
  • Actors
  • Working

• I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • Quality
  • Audience

• The stars are silent.Voyager among dark harbors, I listen, but the midnight wind carries only the sound of trees and water lapping against the gunwale and the solitary cry of the night swallow.There is no dawn. No searing sun rises in east or west. The rocks over Calumal do not silver, and the great round world slides through the void.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Great
  • Night

• From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Important
  • Future
  • Question

• A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Believe
  • Feels
  • Stupid

• It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

  

  Andrea Hirata