Writer Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

— Lesley M. M. Blume

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you…

— Samantha Morton

He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is…

— Frederick Lenz

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone…

— Anonymous

“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate of the people…

— Holly Walrath

“Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.” “Actually,”

— Christina Baker Kline

“I've always found allegories kind of comforting. When you encounter people named Liar and Abstinence, you might not be crazy about them, but you…

— Marisa de los Santos

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of…

— Henry Timrod

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

— Walter Benjamin

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

— Michel Tournier

We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus,…

— Julian Huxley

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

— Joseph Addison