Top 99 Quotes by Michael Dirda

About Michael Dirda

These are some quotes by American author Michael Dirda Critic, who was born in 1948.

Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Michael Dirda

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

Michael Dirda

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

Michael Dirda

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

Michael Dirda

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

Michael Dirda

The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens.

The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens.

Michael Dirda

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

Michael Dirda

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger's brow, the muggy air stifles - one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

Michael Dirda

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Michael Dirda

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

Michael Dirda

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