Quotes of: Hunters Keyword

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Kiran Desai

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

Karen Russell

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

Emily Mitchell

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Ernest Poole

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Elizabeth Strout

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Elizabeth Strout

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Elizabeth Strout

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Ellen Willis

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Felix Feneon

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Fred W. Friendly

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

Graydon Carter

'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

Graydon Carter

I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

Graydon Carter

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.

Graydon Carter

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries' appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Christopher Caldwell

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Chuck Eddy

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Charles Krauthammer

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Charles Krauthammer