Richard Schickel Quotes
- Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
- The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it…
- That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
- He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
- A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.…
- The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
- This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.
- He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room…
- A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
- There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.