Edmund Gosse Quotes

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

Edmund Gosse

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • New
  • Read
  • Fiction

• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Small
  • English
  • Teach

• To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Control
  • Wisdom

• The secret of poetry is cruelty.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Poetry
  • Secret
  • Cruelty

• There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Power
  • Mom
  • Secret

• They don't know you're secretly a badass?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Secret
  • Badass

• The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

• The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Success
  • Secret

• Today's case demonstrates that the corrupt practices first laid bare in the Marsh suit are present in additional sectors of the industry, ... Secret payoffs and conflicts of interest that infected the market for property and casualty insurance have taken root in the employee benefits market as well.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Today
  • Taken
  • Present

• I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Food
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Imagination

• Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Risk
  • Losing
  • Novelty

• We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

  

  George Eliot
  • Judge
  • Secret
  • Sins

• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Dark
  • Wind
  • Secret

• Jesus Himself was criticized. He wasn't a glutton and drunkard, but He was accused of being those things. Why? Because He went to parties where people ate and drank, and some people probably were at those parties who were drunkards and gluttons. But you don't have to be sinning just because you're in in an environment of happiness.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Jesus
  • Himself
  • Criticized

• I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World

• The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Secret
  • Fiction
  • Novelty