“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.” WritingStoriesLiteratureWalksStepsPathWalkingCompact Book:The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.” WayLiteraturePathCrookedStraight Path Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.” PeopleFormLiteraturePathLettersLeisureCharmingRetreatOccasional Book:Compromises Source: Compromises
“When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.” PeopleYearsDoneLastsLiteraturePathSawsPaintingTheaterFollowingContemporaryFranceRelateCinemaThirtyMy TimeVirginiaThirty YearsJoyceWoolf Author:Agnes Varda
“You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.” IfsUniverseLiteratureDestinyPathMiddleCarFrontsBrownPassivePullingOur DestinyChanging Your LifeYour DestinyCan't ChangeTrajectoryBumper Author:Tommy McCarthy
“As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.” GivingLiteratureSidesHellPathFireGoldPainfulSilverAgonyForeheadsTidyBrandedGold And SilverTidingsHell Fire Author:Kin Hubbard
“But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would force the narrator to turn around and start his path anew.” ArtTurnsLiteratureForcePathApproachVainTrapsNarratorsFugue Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path.” HelpingReadingFoundLiteraturePathPoetAmountModelsHelp MeLatinEasternPolishLatin AmericaProvincesAmerican LiteratureLatin American Author:Edward Hirsch