A Quote by Anatoly Rybakov

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.

Anatoly Rybakov

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Adventures Also Books Social Viewpoint

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Anatoly Rybakov
Russian - Writer
January 14, 1911 - December 23, 1998

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Mario Bunge

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

James Ellroy

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Polly Horvath

There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in it, and most of the protagonists are either white or creatures.

Martellus Bennett

I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.

Brett Gelman

... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

Carolyn Wells

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.

Jane Addams

People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.

Ellen Potter

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

Catherynne M. Valente

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

Janet Evanovich

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

Jonathan Kozol

If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

William S. Burroughs

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

Kurt Vonnegut

Now look: I love Twitter. But let's not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.