Aging Quote by Percival Everett

Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

— Percival Everett

“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.”

— Percival Everett

“I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this…

— Percival Everett

Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that…

— Percival Everett

“He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.”

— Percival Everett

“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more…

— Percival Everett

“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my…

— Percival Everett

Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is…

— Percival Everett

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

— Percival Everett

“Look away, look away, look away …”

— Percival Everett

Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the…

— Percival Everett

“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need to quell…

— Percival Everett