Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers
It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It’s at least partially because I survived you that I’m the person I am today.
The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He ...
Church history has repeatedly and clearly proven one thing: Once the highest view of Scripture is abandoned by any theologian, group, denomination, or church, the downhill slide in both its theology and practice is inevitable.
The advent of postmodernism, the enshrinement of Darwinian orthodoxy in the educational systems of Western society, and the rise of blatant humanism as the religion-by-default of large subcultures have brought no end of new challenges to biblical suf...
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to ...
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something e...
What is so special about a title? The mode and significance of titles have changed with the change in the lyrical traditions. So these transitions in style and the art of signification are all collective. What has never changed is the author's intent...
Basically, if the author is totally un-educated, then the text won't bring out his best. Normal, educated people always understand that. But here's the thing—when the author is very highly-educated, the result is the same: the text turns out sub-pa...
Discussions of the effects of serial publication of Victorian novels on their authors and readers1 usually draw attention to the author's peculiar opportunities for cliff-hanging suspense, as, for instance, when Thackeray has Becky Sharp counter old ...
A figure stood at the far end, cloaked in black and beckoning him.
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.
Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.
I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.
