The World Motivation
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.
“I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.”
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
I get more optimistic as I get older.
What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.
Acceptance is being able to feel beautiful in whatever you feel comfortable in.
Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.