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“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.”

Way Years Sometimes Helping Happens Lasts Passion Literature Particular Poet Great Passion

Author:Norman MacCaig

“The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?”

Ifs Ends Happens Literature Individual Style Personality Habit Lovers Clouds Checks Being True Streams Protest Perpetual Quotations Indulge Spontaneity Indulge In Insidious Good Literature

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”

Firsts May Reason Happens Moving Literature Speak Understanding Pleasure Teach Higher Function Mere Affection Sail Oar Rudders

Book:Leaders in literature

Source: Leaders in literature

“Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?”

Important Stories Inspiration Happens Motivation Next Literature Attention Focus

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.”

Happens Literature Revelations Joyful Anything Can Happen

Book:Black water: the book of fantastic literature

Source: Black water: the book of fantastic literature

“Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.”

Happens Reading Literature Process Practice Reader Bookshelves

Author:Terry Eagleton

“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.”

People Happens Used Literature Sex Middle Cry Drama Pages Mercy Filled Partners Used To Be Engaged Negotiation Pornography Manuals Bonfire

Author:Laura Antoniou

“Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'”

Giving Wells Hard Use Might Happens Literature Weapons Democrat Terrorist Regions Saddam Hussein Weaponry Might Use

Author:Chris Matthews

“I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.”

Writing Hands Happens Literature Type

Author:John le Carre

“I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.”

Want Happens Literature Realizing Series Things Happen

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”

Character Happens Literature Situation Rich

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.”

Real Happens Literature Weak Real Life Unexpected Liable Improbable

Book:The Twelfth Hour

Source: The Twelfth Hour

“The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.”

Book Happens Literature Air Children's Literature

Author:Rosemary Wells