Olen Kana Quotes

Hey! I'm talkin' to you, feta bread! ~ Turkey

I can speak these words and perhaps you can see these things clearly because you are using your imagination. But I cannot imagine these things because I lived them, and to remember them with the vividness I know they should have is impossible. They are lost to me. ~ Robert Olen Butler

To me ... she was spring. It was as if while imprisoned inside the dark cage of the inner family ... I had completely frozen into snow ... and then there she was
fresh, clear spring. It was almost inevitable that..I would fall in love with her. -Hatori ~ Natsuki Takaya

And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn't go to war. You went through the motions. But you turned it into graduate school. You contrived a comfortable place on the edge of the action to go study. You didn't even let the army decide your fate. You wangled your safe little job with a pre-enlistment deal and avoided the real thing. You told all the others who manned up, 'Better you do the dirty work, not me. Better your blood than mine. ~ Robert Olen Butler

Metaphors help you boil down the complications and ambiguities of your too-long life into a picture book. They help you lie to yourself ~ Olen Steinhauer

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. ~ Robert Olen Butler

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it. ~ Olen Steinhauer

In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart. ~ Robert Olen Butler

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. ~ Robert Olen Butler

Russian?" I asked dumbly. I do that sometimes. ~ Olen Steinhauer

Jayne Anne Phillips ... is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite ... This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers. ~ Robert Olen Butler

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort. ~ Olen Steinhauer

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. ~ Robert Olen Butler

We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in a vast experiment, a hope that personal finance and investments would do it all for us. We now know that for all too many people, it did not. ~ Helaine Olen

And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing naked in his tiny kitchen in Hell as former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sings a Bee Gees disco song backed by a full studio orchestra and Robin and Maurice. ~ Robert Olen Butler