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Kirby Wright

Novelist

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Kirby Wright is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Kirby Wright

Profession: Novelist

About Kirby Wright

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia]
Kirby Michael Wright is an American writer best known for his 2005 coming-of-age island novel Punahou Blues and the epic novel Moloka'i Nui Ahina, which is based on the life and times of Wright's paniolo grandmother. Both novels deal with the racial tensions between haoles (whites) and the indigeno

Quotes by Kirby Wright

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional…

Comic

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I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety…

Famous

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“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer…

Coming of age

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“Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.”

Award winning

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I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of…

Bigs

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Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

Advantage

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Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

Destroyed

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Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers…

Books

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It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable…

Bird

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It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that…

Affluent

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Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen…

Bigger

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