Ben Lerner Quotes
The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.Ben Lerner
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
T. J. Miller -
I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
Sally Field -
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
Samuel L. Jackson -
The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
T. C. Boyle -
I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
Karl Pilkington -
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
Rachel Kushner
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.
Louis Sachar -
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
Kingsley Amis -
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Allen Tate
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Allen Tate -
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
Amy Lowell -
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
Anne Carson -
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
Oscar Wilde -
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Oscar Wilde -
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Oscar Wilde
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I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.
Autumn de Forest -
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
Ray Bradbury -
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the kind of person who finds life interesting only if it is translated into writing, if it is parsed into words.
Bernard-Henri Levy -
The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.
Ben Lerner