I'm an oblique guy.

“Life’s easy. It’s living it that’s difficult.”

— Mike Sasso

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

— Jess Row

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious…

— Russell Smith

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes…

— Peter Conrad

An oblique angle,” Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. “Ha! I told you I would work that in!

— Amanda Hocking

My best-known book remains 'Henry and Clara,' a novel about the couple who were with the Lincolns at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.…

— Thomas Mallon

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

— Keith Carter

There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on…

— Alex Graves

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels,…

— Alan J. Pakula

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

— Jeff Giles

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

— Brendan Mundorf