Quotes by Steve Almond

Steve Almond

A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

Parent

Teacher

Who We Are

A lot of what I’m having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it’s a big drag. But it’s also the only way to kick the habit.

Football

Media

Way

All language is an aspiration to music.

Aspiration

Language

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Lying

Reading

Writing

Americans seem to be living in a state of fear about the world, one that just keeps intensifying. I mean, look at our cars and homes. They’ve become these massive barricades. Look at what we watch on TV and in the movies – it’s all a bunch of violent ideation. And all these TV shows about dead bodies.

Car

Home

Mean

Art arises from loss. I wish this weren’t the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don’t work out, when you’re licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.

Art

Lying

Writing

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

Clothes

School

Summer

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you’ve done and be proud of who you are.

Done

Eye

Night

Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen to recognized, quite early on, that no one was going to buy my book if I didn’t do everything I could to let them know that the book existed.

Book

Marketing

But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts,snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipopsticks all akimbo, the foli ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.

Beautiful

Halloween

Night

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Able

Action

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Army

Art

Aspiration

Audience

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Book

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Broken

Capitalism

Car

Character

Cheer

Children

Clothes

Country

Cracks

Crazy

Crush

Dad

Depressing

Dirty

Distance

Done

Doors

Emotional

Expectations

Eye

Fighting

Fog

Football

Form

Freak

Fun

Giving Up

Grief

Halloween

Hard Times

Has Beens

Hate

Hate Myself

Heart

Holiday

Home

Journey

Jukebox

Kids

Kindness

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Quotes by Steve Almond

Steve Almond

A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

A lot of what I’m having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it’s a big drag. But it’s also the only way to kick the habit.

All language is an aspiration to music.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you’ve done and be proud of who you are.

Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen to recognized, quite early on, that no one was going to buy my book if I didn’t do everything I could to let them know that the book existed.

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