Ambivalent Quote by Phillip Lopate Download Open image “Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.” — Phillip Lopate ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambivalent Contradictory Essays Strands
One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation -… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue.… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“Fornicating is like parenting: no matter how you do it, you have the guilty sense that somewhere other people are doing it more correctly.” — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of than taking… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they… — Vernon A. Walters Copy Share Image
When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because… — Greg Camp Copy Share Image
There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest. — Ralph Regula Copy Share Image
What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
