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“Landscape is metaphor / and only metaphor. But, oh, I have loved it so.”

— William Bronk

“He understood the impact of his question, his words falling like stones into a shadowy lake—on the surface things return to normal, but in…

— Shades of Gray

“And now, indeed, everything began to look new, unexpected, full of surprises. I had a book in my hands to while away the time,…

— Amitav Ghosh

“[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t it?”

— Morris L. West

“And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.”

— Edith Wharton

“How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?”

— William Morris

“Literature is what's left standing after the storm.”

— Mark Rude

“The most important things aren't always in the main story; sometimes the real meaning is scribbled in the margins.”

— Isabelle Rowan

“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.”

— R.S. Lehner

“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety to paint…

— Deanna L. Lawlis

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil of the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster