“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.” LiteratureMemoriesCareersTruth IsDemandEdgesNightmareNervesLiving On Author:Herbert Gold
“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.” WritingSometimesLiteratureCareersCreativeTeacherEventsStudentsProduceOne DayMethodRemainsDemocraticWorkersGreedHungerFactoriesWorthwhileClientsCreative WritingFarmingImmuneTherapistsGreat WritersSentimentalityCounselingDemocratic SocietyFactory FarmingErraticAnathema Author:Alain de Botton
“I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.” FeelsHas BeensSaidBookLastsPoetryLiteratureCareersStageCould Have Been Book:Literary Occasions: Essays Source: Literary Occasions: Essays
“The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.” PeopleMeanLittlesSaidYoungLiteratureNumbersCareersWonderfulDangerousLettersMiserySticksFortuneAuthorshipCrutches Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
“I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.” EyeChristianFoundLiteratureReligiousCareersTelevisionProgramTraditionAbsolutesAimSeriesUniversityDisasterProfessorsHistorianEnglish LiteratureReligious Traditions Author:Karen Armstrong