A Quote by John D'Agata

If there's a poster boy for the fact that all essays are written through personae, it's Crèvecoeur.

John D'Agata

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John D'Agata
American - Writer
Born: 1975

I've never wanted to be a poster boy, but if I'm going to be a poster boy for anything, it should be this. If you don't give up, and if you carry on believing in yourself when others are doubting you, you can make it.

Andrew Robertson

I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.

Troy Aikman

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

Anurag Kashyap

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

Pattiann Rogers

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

Donald Hall

When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.

John Ralston Saul

I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.

Joe Lando

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

Gavin Creel

Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.