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“I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.”

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James Ellroy

James Ellroy, born on March 4, 1948, is a renowned crime fiction writer from the United States. His works, set against the backdrop of Los Angeles, delve into the historical and criminal issues of American society, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.”

Want Taken Risk Willing Poet Direct Metaphor Statements Abstraction Saying Nothing

Author:Cleanth Brooks

“Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.”

Men Garments Seamless

Author:Cleanth Brooks

“There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.”

Language Can Do Mystery Painting Source Music Is Capable Celebrate Sculpture

Author:Marsha Norman

“We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.”

Ifs Knows Looks Life Is Bed Clean Get Better Not Afraid Sheets Starting Over Messy

Author:Marsha Norman

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