“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.” WarKidsMotherFatherLiteratureGamesTaughtTenLaysAncientBridgesRomeElevenEnglish LiteraturePedestriansAncient RomeWar Games Author:Bernie Taupin
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.” MenYearsSelfBodyPainSufferingFatherLiteratureGrowsGrowing UpImagineMouthsAbuseBasesDown AndSilentTerrorLegsTraumaYour BodyHorribleImagine ThatPassiveFemininityAnother ManCoveringUnspeakableSuffering And Pain Author:Catharine MacKinnon
“As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.” IfsWaySaidRealRememberFatherLiteratureSleepBecomingAwakeGoing To SleepBecoming More Author:Jerzy Kosinski
“As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?” ThinkingFilmPoliticalFatherLiteraturePossibilityCommitmentOrganizationSupportiveEvaluate Book:Civil Wars Source: Civil Wars
“I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.” WayChildrenBookBigsFatherLiteratureCrimeReaderBecomingLoversAnnoyingLibrarianGreat BookNancyBook LoverNancy Drew Author:Asa Larsson
“Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.” WayMadeBookAgeUsedFatherLiteratureModernWastePaperCourtGuidesFormerPosterityAvenuesOur Father Book:Works: Redburn, his first voyage Source: Works: Redburn, his first voyage