Effort Quote by Phillip Lopate Download Open image “In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.” — Phillip Lopate ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effort Needs New work Shadow
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“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.” — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as… — Anonymous Copy Share
“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening to deep-dive… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. — Ralph Ellison 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
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
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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
... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
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All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image