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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.
biographies lost lost-faith
I had lost faith in biography. A. N. Wilson
biographies appetite immense
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Charles Baudelaire
biographies legacy trouble
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. Arthur Wing Pinero
biographies sides negative
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. Deepak Chopra
biographies use actors
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt
biographies remember fit
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. George Bernard Shaw
biographies actors sucker
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. Kate Fleetwood
biographies demonstration dissection
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. H. G. Wells
biographies fiction funny-travel
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Martin Lewis Perl
fiction people science scientists tells time virtually visible
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales!
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd