Stephen L. Carter Quotes

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• Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
• Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.
• Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.
• Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
• If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if…
• To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
• More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
• When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
• I think of my novels as entertainments.
• If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.
• I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
• I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not…
• So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
• Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're…
• In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't…
• We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture…

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