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“Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.”

Turns Literature Understanding Information Reader Benefits Tasks Method Appreciation Helpful

Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

“We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.”

People Knows Different Jobs Turns Literature Bits Company Heard Internet News Assuming Radio Evening Cables Turn-on

Author:Bob Schieffer

“To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.”

Looks Art Turns Literature Difficult Century Skills Degrees Determine Impulse Academic Flattery Twentieth Century Academy Calculations Esoteric Hermeneutics

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.”

Writing May Young Turns Literature Teach Written Precocious

Author:Laura Riding

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.”

Thinking Turns Literature Dust Immortal Decay

Book:Darklost

Source: Darklost

“My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.”

People Ifs Turns Literature Waiting Ought Balanced

Author:Brit Hume

“At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.”

Doe Turns Literature Century Theatre

Author:Edward Bond

“Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.”

Knows Turns Literature Know Me

Author:Jim Lehrer

“And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.”

Knows Feels Able Turns Literature Television Comfortable Hopefully Turn-on

Author:Katie Couric

“I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.”

“The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.”

Writing Littles Might Turns Literature Economy Careful Novelists Unwilling Housewife

Book:In Search of a Character: Two African Journals

Source: In Search of a Character: Two African Journals

“One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.”

Ifs Writing Turns Literature Magic Tricks Magician Mundane

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.”

Giving Use Poetry Turns Reading Literature Language Process Practice Poet Reader Projects Concepts Capacity Heal Division Accommodate Heal Itself

Author:Don Paterson