Stunning 16 Selected Quotes By - Adam Mansbach

Stunning 16 Selected Quotes By - Adam Mansbache

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

— Adam Mansbach

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

— Adam Mansbach

The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

— Adam Mansbach

I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

— Adam Mansbach

I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

— Adam Mansbach

My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.

— Adam Mansbach

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

— Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

— Adam Mansbach

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

— Adam Mansbach

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

— Adam Mansbach

The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

— Adam Mansbach

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

— Adam Mansbach

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

— Adam Mansbach

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

— Adam Mansbach

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

— Adam Mansbach

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.

— Adam Mansbach

This article was written with the help of JARVIS. Use this tool to save time. Join this and get free 10,000 credits.