Quote by Jonathan Raban
Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually kno

Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

Other quotes by Jonathan Raban

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obamas Dreams From My Father is Jimmy Carters short campaign autobiography, Why Not the Best?, published in 1975. – Jonathan Raban

Category:
Dreams
Read Quote

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

Category:
Rejection
Read Quote

Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

Category:
Failure
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Dreams
category

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E. V. Lucas

Category:
Dreams

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now theyre struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart. – Karen Kingsbury

Category:
Dreams

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams. – Liza Minnelli

Category:
Dreams

I think theres a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. – Tori Amos

Category:
Dreams

Random Quotes

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? Were supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties. – Roger Stone

Category:
Freedom

One of the most amazing locations Ive ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. Its an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day. – Jan de Bont

Category:
amazing

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Beauty

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. – Georgia Jagger

Category:
dad