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About Jay Parini
American writer and academic
Jay Parini is an American writer and academic, known for fiction, poetry, biography, and criticism. He has published 96 quotes on the site. His work includes novels centered on Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville, along with a novelized memoir about a road trip with Jorge Luis Borges. Across these books, he often works at the border between literary history and imagined life, drawing on figures from the canon and the idea of the writer as subject.
More from Jay Parini (96 quotes) →Keep reading Jay Parini
- “A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests…”Jay Parini
- “I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of…”Jay Parini
- “Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against mo…”Jay Parini
- “Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytel…”Jay Parini
Running: more sayings
- “Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.”Johan Cruyff
- “A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy beca…”Sean Astin
- “Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.”Diego Klattenhoff
More God quotes
- “Perhaps it started as a whisper in some white wilderness ... ' Jaycee's voice.The pain and the consciousness…”Colin Kapp
- “A living dog is better than a dead lion”Sunday Adelaja
- “Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the Eng…”John Steinbeck
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Books by Jay Parini
The last station
1990
Promised Land
2008
Empire of self
2015
John Steinbeck
1994
The Apprentice Lover
2002