Nat Hentoff Quotes About Books

• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, New York, Crazy

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Counting, Edited

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Book, Men

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the best, what I really hope for is that someday 20, 30 years from now, some kid, 12-year-old, 15-year-old, in Des Moines will be going through the stacks, if they have stacks anymore - they probably won't - and find a book of mine and get something from it.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Kids, Years

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Law, Moments

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• El libro que realmente marcó mi política y que lo ha hecho para siempre es "Darkness at Noon" de Arthur Koestler, que es una novela basada en hechos terribles sobre cómo era Rusia en la época de Stalin, cuando la gente realmente creía que para llegar al punto en el que triunfara el proletariado, había que hacer cualquier cosa que fuera necesaria; los medios no contaban.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Mean, Russia

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

  Nat Hentoff

  Libro, Escritura, Voz

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Reporters

• Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the most distinctive writing style, even more than mine, than I've ever seen in this business.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of a friend of mine, a lawyer. And he had a client who I didn't know, except - maybe I'm pretending I didn't know, but he was a big investor in The New Yorker. And as I found out later in a book about The New Yorker, this guy was very unhappy about [Bill] Shawn.He thought Shawn was spending out - spending too much money on writers.

  Nat Hentoff

  Regret, Stupid, Party

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• [Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.

  Nat Hentoff

  Niños, Libro, Kids

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• [Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Teaching, Mean

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Book, Boys

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

• The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President [Barack] Obama.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Issues, President

  Fuente: annaz.blogspot.com

• Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about [John Cardinal O'Connor].

  Nat Hentoff

  Hate, Book, People

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

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