#mos

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. ↗

— Alan Alda

#angry #angry person #flashes #get #i

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname. ↗

— Alan Alda

#everybody #gets #nickname #tagged #well-known

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#fascinating #interesting #man #me #most

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#become #being #class #i #i think

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#depressed #father #his #home #mostly

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#enjoy #form #forms #i #into

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story. ↗

— Gary Allan

#became #because #doing #everybody #i

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ↗

— Fred Allen

#crop #days #each #failure #first