“[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.” WorldKindCountryPoliticalPresidentEnemyPovertyNovelFiveConditionsDangerousCitizensThirdsFellowsJohnsonBattlefieldsThird WorldDickensPolitical WillThird World CountriesPresident Johnson Author:Anna Quindlen
“In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.” ReadingEnemyNovelSawsTeacherLibrarianGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Gene Luen Yang
“I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.” ThinkingKindReadingSidesEnemyNovelGraphicGraphic NovelsFlipped Author:Gene Luen Yang
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.” ThinkingWayWritingCharacterFictionVisionEnemyNovelStructureSettingFamiliarSettingsAssumptionThemePlotAbandonedWay Of ThinkingTotalityAll That Remains Book:A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris Source: A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris