Writing Quote by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot Download Open image ““Every writer owes something to Holmes." -- T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929”” — T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits—and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or T. S.… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Woolf ’s control over the production of her own work is a significant factor in her genesis as a writer. The Hogarth Press became… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm sure that I'd be able to find a lot to disagree on with Eliot Engel. — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's… — Colette Copy Share Image
“The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to inspire quick and increasingly uninformed dismissals of Eliot, and these repeated denigrations produced, predictably, a generation of students with vague and inaccurate impressions about his poetry and ideas. But there is a bright side to Eliot… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share
“The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions. The major figure here is Grover Smith, who in the midfifties published an encyclopedic study of Eliot's sources. 3 The mere existence of Smith's scholarly tome changed the shape of close readings of Eliot. The poet's allusions and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“domestic competence utterly alien to her, a kind of miracle. He is saying, “I am in love with George Eliot! My god! Middlemarch! That… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Modern poets like Frost still want to make 'deep' statements; but they are also more sceptical of such high-sounding generalities than many of their… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch 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
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
