Culture Quote by Anatole Broyard

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

— Anatole Broyard

I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People…

— Anne Waldman

“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you…

— Ray Bradbury

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

— Bradford Cox

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and…

— Ray Bradbury

“Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that’s been brewing since…

— Hal Duncan

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume…

— Umberto Eco

The metaphors exist for the stories.

— Kurt Busiek

Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself -…

— Michael Dirda

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

— James Geary

“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human beings to…

— Salmon Rushdie