--- title: "3 Taras Grescoe Quotes - Famous Journalist" description: "Canadian journalist and author... | Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer. His debut book, Sacré Blues, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creativ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19f/taras-grescoe-87506_fitness_engineers-have-had-to-invent-a-new-categ_126045.jpg" --- # Taras Grescoe (1966) Journalist **3** quotes in **5** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Taras Grescoe is a journalist. ## Quick Facts About Taras Grescoe Born November 28, 1966 Profession Journalist ## About Taras Grescoe Canadian journalist and author... \| Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer. His debut book, Sacré Blues, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, and McAuslan First Book Prize. His fourth book, Bottomfeeder, won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, awarded to ## Quotes by Taras Grescoe > [“\* Engineers have had to invent a new category for the commuter trains of Mumbai, whose Western Railway Line is the world's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taras-grescoe/engineers-have-had-to-invent-a-new-category-for-the-commuter-trains/) Taras Grescoe [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19f/taras-grescoe-87506_fitness_engineers-have-had-to-invent-a-new-categ_126045.jpg) > [“A few reasonable policies won't do much good if the surrounding society is insane.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taras-grescoe/a-few-reasonable-policies-won-t-do-much-good-if-the-surrounding/) Taras Grescoe [Humor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/taras-grescoe-87506_humor_a-few-reasonable-policies-won-t-do-much_253030.jpg) > [“Walking back across the St-Esprit bridge, to the ghetto I'd instinctively gravitated toward, I mentally erected a more appropriate statue on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taras-grescoe/walking-back-across-the-st-esprit-bridge-to-the-ghetto-i-d/) Taras Grescoe [Humor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/taras-grescoe-87506_humor_walking-back-across-the-st-esprit-bridge_583152.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taras-grescoe/#itemlist", "name": "Taras Grescoe Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“* Engineers have had to invent a new category for the commuter trains of Mumbai, whose Western Railway Line is the world's single most crowded public transport corridor. 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