Frederic Tuten famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.
-- Frederic Tuten

#Contemporary Fiction #Depth #Stories
Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.
-- Frederic Tuten

#Years #Years Ago #Affair
I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing.
-- Frederic Tuten

#Thinking #Culture #Problem
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.
-- Frederic Tuten

#Book #Writing #Editors
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.
-- Frederic Tuten

#Years #People #House
If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.
-- Frederic Tuten

#Dark #Thinking #Animal
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.
-- Frederic Tuten

#Way #Said #Poetry Is

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

Frederic Tuten famous quotes

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