Books Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Create Literature Creativity Desire Fright Frights Frights Grunts Grunt Leads Frights Literature Literature Leads Looks
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
