"You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals."

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David Denby

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.”
“There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous”
“How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.”
“A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.”
“Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.”
“Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.”
“There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.”
“The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.”

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