Anderson Quote by Thomas Griffith

“Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be…

— Alasdair Gray

“I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they…

— Laird Barron

“American literature has, since the time of the Puritans, featured the jeremiad as a prolonged complaint, a prophet's indictment of his society characteristic of…

— Michelle M. Tokarczyk

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may…

— Jessica Mitford

“Thus it has come about that our theoretical and critical literature, instead of giving plain, straightforward arguments in which the author at least always…

— Carl von Clausewitz

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

“Like many authors belonging to that large and unfortunate caste, “the unjustly neglected”, Whittemore suffers from being an embarrassingly good read. He also suffers…

— Edward Whittemore

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but…

— Kevin J. Anderson

“Nobody hits it right more of the time than E. B. White: "All writing is both a mask and an unveiling.”

— Jeri Parker

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”

— Bertrand Russell

“When we see things from a different perspective, they either transform into fair features or slip under the cloak of the collective unconscious… overruled…

— Kayla Severson