“The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.” PeopleKnowsWayWritingYearsKindMeanBookSometimesProblemAgeInterestNovelCollegeSeriousTwentiesAshamedBe KindProfessorsGet OverImpotenceCollege Professors Author:Stephen King
“Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.” IfsFeelsYearsMadeWould BeRunningFeltExampleSeriousPoetFemaleTwentiesSuicideThirtyHelpfulTwenty OneRunning Out Of TimePlath Author:Margaret Atwood
“Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.” PoliticalPoliticsHoursTakenFourSeriousTwentiesYeahGrapes Author:Woody Allen
“I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenFirstsThreeFeltSecretSeriousNeededInvolvedGayTwentiesEncountersTypicalPromiscuousSerious Relationship Author:Andrew Solomon
“If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.” IfsFeelsYearsHas BeensSeemsPastTalkingBoysFiveComedySeriousBuiltTwentiesCriticsInevitableThirtyPlaywrightThirty YearsNot TalkingTwenty Five Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.” MenProblemPresidentSeriousConcernedTwentiesMedicalAmerican SocietyHypnosis Author:Theodore Sturgeon
“Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding a stupid book to my chest in an effort to summon a Greek love-slave from the great beyond. (Grace)” BookMotherEffortGraceStupidSeriousPleaseStandingTwentiesSlaveGreekChestsJeansStanding OutBarefoot Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.” YearsTwoThreeHeardLove YouSeriousTwentiesTwo YearsLastingThree WordsTwenty TwoLasting Relationship Author:Paulo Coelho
“Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.” WorldWayMeanMadeFactsUseTodayOrderSocialChallengesWealthJusticeHistoryTechnologyDangerousMovementSeriousPercentConscienceTwentiesSocial JusticeEdgesInequalityMade ItFantasticHumankindUnjustAbyssTheologianDistributionEightyWorld OrderExcludedImbalancePerverseness Book:The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today Source: The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today
“His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?” WorldShouldFirstsHumansHardJoySpiritHumanityFightingJusticeHuman BeingsGriefDestinyProgressAchieveCenturyWillingSeriousHorrorTwentiesHuman SpiritDynamicsEquanimityIndefinable Author:Aberjhani
“It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” YearsArtReasonFactsLanguageSeriousProveRacismScientistFunctionTwentiesKingdomsWorking ItDistractionExplaining Author:Toni Morrison