“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.” PeopleThinkingWritingSelfEyeGrowsLossEffortPayWatchesWrittenHabitProtectConsciousPraiseInvestmentCriticalSubtleSelf ConsciousThrough The EyesDiffusion Book:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
“The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.” PeopleIfsMenHeartMeanBookHandsSeemsJobsUniverseLossWrittenRainArgumentEnvironmentalNotionDefenseRadicalReachingWildernessTestamentOld TestamentDepartureInsistingCenter Of The Universe Author:Bill McKibben
“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.” WorldLongLightMightThreeLossWrittenFoodAreasEarsCookingGenerousIslandsPairsCulinaryAppetiteDozenDucksBowlsMasterpieceCornStimulusSteakOystersCrabsLobsterProustLong IslandClamsScallops Author:A. J. Liebling
“In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.” BookAgeVoiceLossTeacherWrittenStudentsCensorshipMourn Author:Judy Blume
“The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.” KnowsWorldYearsTodayWishLossWrittenLettersTwentiesThirtyThirty YearsToday's WorldGreat Loss Author:David Burnett
“Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.” BookMatterLightLossGriefWrittenLonelinessMovedAmusedGrief LossGail Author:Frederick Buechner
“I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."” LossWrittenAddVainPropose Book:The Island of Dr. Moreau Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.” FactsLossWrittenMournCdsNostalgicVinylOutdated Author:Alexis Taylor
“I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.” WorldWritingDoneFoundLeftNaturalLossWrittenExcitingNatural WorldA Loss For Words Author:Jean Craighead George