Amy Waldman Quotes

A collection of quotes by Amy Waldman.

Amy Waldman is an American author and journalist. She was born in 1969 and grew up in Connecticut. Waldman worked as a reporter for The New York Times for over a decade, covering topics such as politics and national security. In 2011, she published her debut novel, "The Submission," which received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Waldman's writing often explores issues of identity, multiculturalism, and the complexities of contemporary society. She continues to write and contribute to various publications.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they d

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Benjamin Carson

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonym

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write m

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.