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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) →Other sayings from Jay Parini
- “My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He mad…”Jay Parini
- “Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special…”Jay Parini
- “I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tea…”Jay Parini
- “With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's…”Jay Parini
Marriage: more sayings
- “My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black…”Gina Prince-Bythewood
- “If I don't trim the upper lip, my wife wouldn't kiss me. You have to take into account her needs as well.”Eric Weddle
- “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”Zig Ziglar
Explore God
- “What God cares about most is that we live a good life. The apostles were good examples. He does not expect pe…”Phil Mitchell
- “I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.”Ben Kingsley
- “Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and t…”Mehmet Murat ildan
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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