Jabari Asim quotes

“I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.”
-- Jabari Asim

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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“I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?”
-- Jabari Asim

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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“I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.”
-- Jabari Asim

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“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”
-- Jabari Asim

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Online dicuss, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”
-- Jabari Asim

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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.”

“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.”

“You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.”

“The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.”

“Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.”

“Talent always rises to the top”

“If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.”

“If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.”

“I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.”