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literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
stories whole
We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves. Denis Johnson
stories four philippines
I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.
stories seekers
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
stories may faces
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome. Eleanor Roosevelt
stories speak shoulders
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me. Eduardo Galeano
stories pages way
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it? Elizabeth Bishop
stories sad-story
A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you. Elizabeth Edwards
stories short-story experiments
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
stories action ends
Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.
short-story
I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists. Regina Spektor