All Teju Cole Quotes
- Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of… Both
- To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb… Alone
- In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are… Alive
- We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are… All
- Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example… Artist
- One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. Characteristics
- Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. All
- In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The… Belongs
- Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and… Across
- On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as… Artistic
- I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source… Biggest
- For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt… Apt
- Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing.… Bag