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Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.


And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them.


- Sherman Alexie

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
- Sherman Alexie

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.
- Wes Bentley

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism.
- Haruki Murakami

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
- Charles Bowen

That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.
- Jim Butcher

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
- Max Cannon

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
- Natalie Cole

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
- Trevor Dunn

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
- Siobhan Fahey

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.
- Corey Feldman

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.
- Laurence Fishburne

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
- Gillian Flynn

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.
- Michel Gondry

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
- Bill Griffith

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.
- Joel Hodgson

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
- Ashley Judd

Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.
- Jaron Lanier

David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.
- David Lipsky

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
- Kurt Loder

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
- Marilyn Manson

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.
- Alyssa Milano

Top Gun, I whispered to Lindsey. We'd started pointing out Luc's ubiquitous pop culture references, having decided that because he cut his fangs in the Wild West, he'd been entranced by movies and television. You know, because living in a society of magically enhanced vampires didn't require enough willing suspension of disbelief.
-Merit in Chloe Neill's Friday Night Bites
- Chloe Neill

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.
- Cynthia Nixon

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
- Christopher Nolan

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
- Jean Shepherd

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
- John Shirley

In the 21st century men's tits have not just rivalled but replaced women's as the touchstone of 'sexy' in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.
- Mark Simpson

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
- Kevin Smith

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
- Aisha Tyler

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
- Aisha Tyler

Oh, the humanity....
It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.
- J R Ward

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
- Shawn Wayans

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
- Scott Weiland

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
- Adam West

Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives.
- Colson Whitehead

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.
- Bruce Willis

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.
- Thomas Wilson

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
- Jeffrey Wright

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
- Al Yankovic

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