“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.” HeartWholeFactsStoriesHomeBitsPiecesChildhoodEventsWhole LifeChristmasCarrieRepetitionValidityNursery Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.” IfsMenLittlesPiecesGreatnessProsperityCarriePrecipicePoise Author:Seneca the Younger
“Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.” ArtEndsPiecesPercentCraftsCarrieNinety Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.” ThinkingShouldMeanArtReasonFeelingsBreakPiecesHonestPoetArt IsPainfulExcuseCriticalCarrieVoidConfessionCheeseClownIrresponsibleManifestos Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.” PeopleEndsDoneHandsFilmAudiencePiecesReadyFlowerArmsHorrorCome UpMonstersGravesReactionsShockCarrieSomething NewRoofTerrificAmyMost AmazingHorror FilmBrian Author:Stephen King