Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

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

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Daisaku Ikeda

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

Daisaku Ikeda

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

Donald Justice

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Donald Justice

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Don Marquis

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

Joy Davidman

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

John M. Ford

There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

Jessica Hagedorn

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Jupiter Hammon

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

June Jordan

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

June Jordan

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Andre Norton