Simon Rich Quotes

• I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him.

  Simon Rich

  Teacher, Book, Artist

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• Admiraba la seriedad de estas personas, muchas de las cuales se habían unido a Greenpeace y habían marchado por cosas nobles en su juventud. Pero no compartía su odio hacia la clase dirigente. Después de todo, el establishment me había dado muchas de mis cosas favoritas: Nick at Nite, los New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. La lista era interminable.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, New York, People

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them. I discovered heroes like Roth, King, Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, TC Boyle, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris. These people weren't trying to "rebel against the literary establishment." They were trying to write great, high-quality books that were as entertaining and moving as possible.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Moving, Book

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books about Arctic exploration or about doomed Apollo missions. I tend to read a lot of nonfiction that's sort of hyperbolic and visceral. And then I kind of draw on my own personal experiences and my own sort of generic life experience, and I kind of try to feed my day-to-day reality that I have with sort of high stakes reference points that I read about. They're things everyone can relate to.

  Simon Rich

  Book, Reality, Trying

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Nunca he sido una persona guay; de hecho, la gente guay siempre se ha reído de mí. Por eso me encantó [la novela juvenil de Robert Cormier] La guerra del chocolate, porque los chicos guays (no la clase dirigente) eran los villanos. Me sentí totalmente identificada.

  Simon Rich

  Fun, War, Kids

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

  Simon Rich

  Love, Men, Ninety Nine

  Simon Rich (2013). “The Last Girlfriend on Earth”, p.23, Profile Books

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• I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

  Simon Rich

  Onions, Normal, Strange

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• There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

  Simon Rich

  Kids, Monsters, World

  Simon Rich (2016). “The World of Simon Rich”, p.13, Serpent's Tail

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• La gente es divertida en la edad adulta, igual que lo son los gustos musicales de la gente, pero cambia muy rápidamente. Dentro de cinco o diez años, probablemente seguiré confiando en lo que es gracioso, pero probablemente ya no lo sea.

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  People, Musical, Like You

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to actively be a good person because nobody's around to tell you to do that. Even evil kids will be good when adults are watching. But once you're an adult, no one is. As a grownup, you've got an agency over your own life, which hopefully you use for the greater good and not evil.

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  Niños, Mentir, Mal

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

  Simon Rich

  Book, Mitzvah, Bars

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.

  Simon Rich

  Teacher, Drama, Hippie

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Fun, Crazy

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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