KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Mona Simpson Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Mona Simpson

Showing 11-20 of 36 Quotes by Mona Simpson

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

~Mona Simpson

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 14th, 1957

Links

Find Mona Simpson on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Frederick Douglass
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Saint Teresa Of Avila Hillary Clinton Ernest Hemingway Steve Martin Joyce Meyer Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ben Shapiro Unknown

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1931 - Desmond Tutu

1952 - Vladimir Putin

1573 - William Laud

1576 - John Marston

1727 - William Samuel Johnson

1746 - William Billings

1810 - Henry Alford

1849 - James Whitcomb Riley

1854 - Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

1879 - Joe Hill

Birthdays on October 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Cool Courage Easter Faith Leadership Life Motivational Work