Adam Mansbach Professions : Author Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Adam Mansbach We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting. Adam Mansbach shelookparentingfall Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen. Adam Mansbach besteatingpositivesometimes For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult. Adam Mansbach placemeanxietythinking Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you. Adam Mansbach loseyoutimetoday The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it. Adam Mansbach usthroughgeniushistory Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing. Adam Mansbach fatfacewomannature When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold. Adam Mansbach personsomeonefeelingcommunity I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island. Adam Mansbach bathtubislandsmalllike One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted. Adam Mansbach yougetting-olderpeopleway A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home. Adam Mansbach unclenewholidayhome In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend. Adam Mansbach deepparentsloveworld The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing. Adam Mansbach trylikedifferentfunny Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. Adam Mansbach weirdmadpeopleinteresting The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene. Adam Mansbach newscenenew-yorkheart My daughter is a very adventurous eater. I'm not the guy who sits around lamenting that all my kid will eat it is Tater Tots and chicken nuggets. With my kid, it's more a capricious and whimsical decision-making. Adam Mansbach eatchickenwilldaughter No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish. Adam Mansbach jewishbeenbeingfamily Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel. Adam Mansbach youbrotherworktime There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel. Adam Mansbach hearnewstreetsdemand The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant. Adam Mansbach problemsyouloveworld To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world. Adam Mansbach endmeunderstandingworld Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson authorAll Authors
