Quotes by Ian Frazier

About Ian Frazier:

Ian Frazier is an American writer and humorist. He is best known for his 1989 non-fiction history Great Plains, his acclaimed 2010 best-selling opus Travels in Siberia, and as a writer and humorist for The New Yorker.
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One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

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Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?

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In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.

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Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

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It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transpo...

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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

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On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.

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Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

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Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer s...

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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in ...

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I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

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Author Bio

  • NameIan Frazier
  • Descriptionauthor and journalist
  • Born1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter