Quote by Azar Nafisi Download Open image ““I do not consider myself Western, but rather modern”” — Azar Nafisi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I love the idea of westerns. It’s a simple dynamic: a man or woman overcoming hardship to carve out a meaningful life in a… — Darrell Pitt Copy Share Image
“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.” — Gerald W. Haslam Copy Share Image
“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...” — Johnny D. Boggs Copy Share Image
All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world. — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
Traditional westerns typify some of the hardships men face: you have to be rugged, silent, stoic. It's a man against nature, against the world. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life. — Ti West Copy Share Image
Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before… — René Girard Copy Share Image
Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed in literature,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all. It was… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
