“The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.” Quote by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.” IfsThinkingRealStoriesTogetherDarknessSadnessReaderTragedyBeing RealHappiness And Sadness Author:Alan Lightman
“I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.” BookMomentsModernTragedyComicDiagnosisFunny BookModern Tragedy Author:Alan Lightman
“Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!” WarAmericaToo MuchDangerousWeaponsTongueLatinLatin America Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...” ThinkingKnowsYearsBookWantedTurnsNovelAmbitiousInsecureDiagnosisGreat Hope Author:Alan Lightman
“I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!” KnowsWorldMovingPoliticalLeaderKnow HowDevilPaidHatedOfficialsCampsVisiting Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“All countries have problems with China's economic power.” CountryProblemEconomicChinaEconomic Power Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.” GivingKindStillsEnoughCharacterAbleFictionFineBalanceSurpriseArtisticFiction Writers Author:Alan Lightman
“"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.” ThinkingYearsBookWholeCharacterLastsThreeChangedMonthsNeededTenSignificantLast YearDiagnosisThree MonthsWholesaleSmall Changes Author:Alan Lightman
“The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.” IfsGivingHandsDoctorsHealKnivesMurderer Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan