Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

De conversatie wordt soms pas echt levendig en hartelijk als de gasten weer op de gang staan om hun jas aan te trekken.

C. Buddingh'

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

George A. Moore

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Honore de Balzac

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

Hannah Cowley

Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.

Harry Crosby

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

James Merrill

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

Johnny Marr

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

Jack Spicer

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Jean Toomer

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Connie Willis

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

David Antin

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

David Antin

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

David Antin

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

Dorothy Allison

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Daisaku Ikeda