Anthony Lane Quotes
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English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.
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No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
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That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.
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I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.
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That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.
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We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process...
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We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
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Youth is a clearer witness to the world.
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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there are nonetheless changes afoot. Harry's voice, like that of his best friend, Ron (Rupert Grint), sounds like the mating cry of an oboe, and, worse still, the two cease to be best friends..
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Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.