Quotes by Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter

But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni – more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

Joy

Order

School

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 always ‘up from the streets.

Black

Character

Television

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Conflict

Plague

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 sell.

Book

Thinking

Writing

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Entertainment

Novel

Thinking

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Black

Fiction

Thinking

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 love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

Believe

Choices

People

If you’re fascinated by America, you’ll be fascinated by family.

America

Fascinated

Ifs

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs – almost as fads – rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

Christian

Fads

Religious

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

Christian

Political

Religious

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Adults

America

Believe

Black

Book

Character

Choices

Christian

Class

Competition

Conflict

Creative

Defense

Depressing

Entertainment

Eye

Facts

Fads

Falling In Love

Fascinated

Fiction

Fleeing

Friday

Generosity

Gossip

Ifs

Intellectual

Interesting

Joy

Listening

Love Is

Monday

Names

Novel

Order

People

Plague

Political

Real

Religious

Rumor

Running

School

Self

Selfish

Stupid

Technology

Television

Thinking

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Quotes by Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter

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 always ‘up from the streets.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

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 sell.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

If you’re fascinated by America, you’ll be fascinated by family.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs – almost as fads – rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

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