“One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.” DifferentJobsJoyLiteratureHugeAmountAreasGreat JoyInvestigating Author:Stephen Daldry
“I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.” WayKindChildrenKidsLiteratureParentAreasTownsLibraryLocalsMy Way Author:Neil Gaiman
“My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked to apologize for that. It is interesting to me that people ask 'what's the point of doing that if it's not useful?' But they never ask that, or do they very rarely ask that about art or literature or music. Those things are not gonna produce a better toaster.” PeopleIfsArtAsksLiteratureInterestingProduceResearchAreasPracticalsFairnessApologizingUsabilityToasters Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.” KnowsWayWritingFirstsDoeBookLiteratureDealsSeriousReaderAreasMathematicsSacredMathProofTheologyClarityMathematicalUsualMathematicianTopicsTrailsDeitiesProof Of GodMathematical ProofNumerology Author:Martin Gardner
“The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.” HumansLiteratureIndividualLossAreasRateInventionContactFasterElsewhereCompetingHuman Inventions Author:Jared Diamond
“Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.” IfsImportantLiteratureMy OwnJudgmentAreasAgreeDetermineEditorials Author:Katie Couric
“I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensLiteratureAreasArticulation Author:Edna Longley
“In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of literature, I mean drama, there is only silence. That sort of aesthetic integrity does not exist in radio and television, and seldom on film.” MayMeanDoeFilmFightingLiteratureSilenceFictionTelevisionIntegrityDramaAreasRadioHonestlyProseAesthetic Author:James Kelman
“I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.” IdeasWholeLiteratureFictionAreasWhole LifeGenre Author:Stephen King
“So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.” ArtIdeasLiteratureSocialOpinionStudyHigherAreasSupremeDestructiveReignBentPromotingMagnetSocial StudiesHigher EducationParasitesGullibleLiterature And Art Author:Doug Casey
“My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.” LittlesDesireLiteratureInterestStreetsSpeechAdultsAreasStoresParksRestaurantsDepartmentHotelFreedom Of SpeechAirportsDepartment StoresHotel Lobby Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.” CountryAbleLiteratureDangerousAreasPlantSnakesInsectsSpiders Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.” WritingDoneReadingLiteratureSpeakNovelAreasAskingVariousVarietyGenreMechanicAsking Questions Author:Nicholas Sparks
“The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.” MadeWholeLiteratureSpeakStrongSocialCenturyDemandAreasSeriesSpeciesAppearanceCategoriesReverseHomosexualityDiscoursePsychicsVocabularyBehalfPsychiatryFormationNineteenth CenturyLegitimacyPerversitySocial ControlJurisprudenceInversions Author:Michel Foucault
“I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.” KnowsI CanLiteratureSocialInterestingConfidenceAmountAreasFairsCuriosityUsersLsd Author:Dan Rather