“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
“A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize thirty lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope.… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“As the poet Alexander Pope said: Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
