There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and… — Rick Hilles Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Millennials are first and foremost problem solvers. They are optimistic. They are well educated. They are creative. They are open to change.… — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
If I'm ever working on a set and anyone talks about a master shot, I say there is no master shot. Before… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is,… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
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