Contemplating Quote by Les Back

“...some of the most important work that we can do as scholars may more closely resemble contemporary editorial or curatorial practices, bringing together, highlighting…

— Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

— Clifton Daniel

Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

— Alistair MacLeod

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to…

— Kenzaburo Oe

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject.…

— Tom Wolfe

Part of what you try and do when you're writing is to just transcend politics and the moment in a way and talk about…

— Lisa Joy

The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is…

— Ernest Gellner

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in…

— Timothy White

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem

“It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.”

— Alexandra Johnson