Book Quote by Alix Kates Shulman Download Open image “In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.” — Alix Kates Shulman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Force Ideas Social
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system. — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity. — Dana Snyder Copy Share Image
All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint. — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions. — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I ultimately want to contribute something toward bettering human relations. — Murray Head Copy Share Image
What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.” — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
