“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.” WayGivingWritingYearsFirstsMeanDifferentWantedFormMastersExercisePagesTrainingVery GoodDamnThings To DoVersesCompelledWaltBalladsDays Of The YearFree Verse Author:Conrad Aiken
“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.” IfsAgeSpiritChoicesDoubtMastersOughtPagesNo DoubtVolumeEntry Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.” KnowsHas BeensBookWarMightThreeCoursesEconomyFourWrittenMastersHeroPagesSupremeDataMight Have BeenMy HeroBorges Author:Peter Greenaway
“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.” WritingMindBookEyeImaginationPleasureAttentionMastersReaderSorrowPagesCastsDelightConclusionVainTravellerEagernessCaptivityDepartingDetaining Book:Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works
“Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.” WayArtFeelingsMovingFormMastersPagesProfoundWorks Of ArtSpeculationGorgeousNew StartJenny Author:Sam Lipsyte
“One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.” MenThreeProduceMastersPagesRegardOriginalsAverageBrilliantSimile Author:Evelyn Waugh
“I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of a master story, some version of the myth that resonated with me, since I could have taken more or less any detail that I wanted or the opposite and try to put that down on the page in a way that I could express from that outset for myself and for our readers what it was that was so magical about [Buckminster] Fuller's way of putting together the world.” WorldWayTryingFirstsStoriesWantedTogetherTakenMastersReaderPagesOppositesDetailsMythVersionsCaptureBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.” MenWayHeartChristianLyingUniverseFatherSpeakTermRealizingMastersPagesMen And WomenConvictionIntimateTestamentNew TestamentChristian FaithGod Father Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson
“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288” ChoicesGrowsLossWalksMistakeFateMastersCircumstancesPagesVictimVictims Of CircumstanceEpilogues Author:Richard Paul Evans