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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
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There is no method except yourself.
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and…
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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to…
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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
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When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
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Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is…
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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
— Tracy Chapman
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Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
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I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I…
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone,…
— Jack Canfield
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I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed…
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I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I…
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