T. J. Stiles quotes

“I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.”
-- T. J. Stiles

Source : "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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“A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.”
-- T. J. Stiles

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“The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality,”
-- T. J. Stiles

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“We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.”
-- T. J. Stiles

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“A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.”
-- T. J. Stiles

Source : T.J. Stiles (2009). “The First Tycoon”, p.19, Vintage

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“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”

“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”

“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.