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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.
What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.
Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the reviewed internal candidates was so high that it did not merit to go outside.
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
Do liberals think nations such as Canada, Japan, Britain and Australia are pursuing 'racist' immigration policies? All have had merit-based immigration systems in place for decades.
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide the camera in its task of capturing not only colors, lights and shadows, but the movement of life itself.
My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.
I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.
The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.
I mean, I knew of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a literary point of view, it's beautifully written.
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.
It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer movies.
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.
I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!
Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
Summer is always a tricky time to recommend new literary fiction. The big releases do not hit until fall.
The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
