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Wrong End Of A Telescope

Wrong End Of A Telescope

Wrong End Of A Telescope “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”–Dr. Seuss

Landscape, Cityscape, Seascape

Landscape, Cityscape, Seascape

Landscape, Cityscape, Seascape “One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.”–Kurt Vonnegut

Society Of Dead Authors

Society Of Dead Authors

Society Of Dead Authors “The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”–Charles Caleb Colton

Literary Polish And Judicious Reading

Literary Polish And Judicious Reading

Literary Polish And Judicious Reading “All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.”–H. P. Lovecraft

Good Prose On A Page

Good Prose On A Page

Good Prose On A Page “For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle…. A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.”–John Cheever

Break, Bully, Honour, Love Fiction

Break, Bully, Honour, Love Fiction

Break, Bully, Honour, Love Fiction “And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”–Virginia Woolf