Home / Quotes / Quote by Stanley Elkin

Quote by Stanley Elkin

“The furthest out is the only place to be.”

Quote by Stanley Elkin

Author

Stanley Elkin was an American novelist known for his distinctive humor and profound psychological insights. His works often explore the complexities of family, identity, and the human condition. Born on May 11, 1930, he passed away on May 31, 1995. more

You May Also Like

“Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue.”

Want Pain Secret Despite Crafts Agony Fatigue Secret Places

Author:Arthur Penn

“The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Today, writers want to impress other writers.”

Want Today Impress

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.”

Ifs Writing Together Felt Sentences Crafts

Book:To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.”

Impossible Journey Gay Empty Horse Foundation Block Crafts Yoke Snapping

Book:The great wall of China: stories and reflections

Source: The great wall of China: stories and reflections

“The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.”

Shots Surprise Crafts Archer Archery

Author:Eugen Herrigel

“When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.”

Want Giving Feels Trying Kind Character Stories Seems Grief Kindness Cry Cold Reader Stronger Backgrounds Impression Objectives Pity Crafts Miserable Unfortunate Standing Out Sigh

Author:Anton Chekhov

“You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.”

Needs Writing Firsts Book Attention Too Much Reader Bed First Time Cease Command Crafts Lightning Thunder Exhibits Intervals Adjectives Thunder And Lightning

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“No ideas but in things.”

Ideas Crafts No Idea

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.”