La-jeune-nee Quote by Hélène Cixous

“Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes,…

— David St. John

“[The writer] doesn't want a new world which might be established immediately, because he knows it would never suit him. He wants an impossible…

— Henry Miller

“There is no place which is not imbued with the Way. It pervades all things and all sentient beings.”

— Ta-Mo

Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged.

— David W. Orr

“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life…

— Patrick Nowell-Smith

“Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see…

— Marie Brennan

“But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.”

— Haruki Murakami

“This is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people habe a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest…

— Lauren Oliver

“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your…

— Stephen King

“Nowhere is it written that you have the right to make everyone else bend to your particular vision of utopia.”

— Joseph Befumo

“even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“The world we write is but a dappled expression of the one in which we live.”

— Virginia Crow