Ends Quote by Ellen Glasgow Download Open image “Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?” — Ellen Glasgow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ends Materials Mere
I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.” — Keith Botsford Copy Share Image
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
