Books Quote by Terry Teachout Download Open image “Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.” — Terry Teachout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Entertainment Inspirational Late Novel Superlatives
Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment. — Mario Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art form, that books meant to simply entertain must be flawed. There is an entire cache of what critics call “beach reads,” books that are disposable, forgettable, anti-literary. And this is where I have changed the most as a… — Will Lavender Copy Share
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling… — Terry Teachout Copy Share
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.” — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going to need… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or whatever concept… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle. These tend… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. — Terry Teachout 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
