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“Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.”

Writing Art America Form Literature Accepting Dying Talent Footsteps Bedtime

Book:Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel

Source: Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel

“We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.”

Thinking Problem Bigs Form Literature Deals Obstacles Narcissism Preference Big Problems

Author:Andrew Cohen

“What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!”

Self Form Literature Imagination Concerned Dear Mistaken Anne Elliot Wild Imagination

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.”

Form Poetry Literature Natural Novel Critics Analysis Indispensable Deductions Summary Paraphrase Lyric Poetry

Book:Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

Source: Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

“Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.”

Thinking Age Form Literature Easy Attention Wonderful Digital Digital Age Attention Span Zips

Author:Rita Dove

“I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.”

Thinking Art Form Literature Higher Honor Isms Honor And Respect

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.”

Form Literature Land Expression Failure Pioneers Undertakings Pioneering

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.”

Trying Philosophy Reality Seems Form Literature Language Subjects Mathematics Connected Physics Department Woe

Author:Jules Michelet

“I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.”

“A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.”

World Humans Book Stories Shows Hands Form Literature Novel This World Symbols

Author:Shane Warren Jones

“I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.”

Thinking Way Important Form Literature Term Forever Alive New York Responsible Jazz Narrative Tyrants Consumed Riot Niche Being Responsible

Author:Nick Antosca

“All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.”

Art Form Literature Prayer Behinds Art Is Active Theology Luminous Great Literature

Author:Melissa Pritchard

“I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.”

Mind Littles Doe Art Form Literature Television Benefits Cables Hindsight Iliad High Art

Author:Kevin Bleyer

“There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.”

Writing Form Literature Novel Tradition Afghanistan Novel Writing

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.”

Ifs Believe Ideas Whole Form Literature I Believe Deals Fiction Vocabulary Scrap

Author:J. G. Ballard

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