80s Quote by Theodora Goss

Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in…

— Adam Morris

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula

“Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like…

— Federico Fellini

“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness to failures…

— Sarah Lewis

“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward, so have…

— Nicole Krauss

“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

“The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the…

— Edmund Wilson

“Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we…

— Bill Willingham

“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are…

— F. Sionil José

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly…

— Roger Housden

“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great…

— Jessica Lave

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez