- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Bellies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.
- Relax
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020