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novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. David Mitchell
novelists poet copyright
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright Beth Henley
novelists filmmaker
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers. Billy Bob Thornton
novelists sooner-or-later
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular. Dean Koontz
novelists kind call-me
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. Aleksandar Hemon
novelists academic written
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt
novelists perhaps
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. Kurt Vonnegut
novelists knows cusp
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing. Jane Smiley
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poet represent size sound thus universal
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poet negotiation range
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poet reader great-poet
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. Edward Hirsch
imitation repetition observation
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. Denis Waitley
imitation equal predecessors
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. Baltasar Gracian
imitation acquire
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. Edmund Burke
imitation wit poorest
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit. Johann Kaspar Lavater
imitation rudeness strength weak
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength Eric Hoffer
imitation absurdity copies
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
imitation envious
I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. Jeaniene Frost
imitation conviction
Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others. Ernst Moritz Arndt
imitation raised contrast
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated. Joshua Reynolds