Frederic Tuten Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.”
-- Frederic Tuten

#Contemporary Fiction Quotes #Depth Quotes #Stories Quotes
“Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.”
-- Frederic Tuten

#Years Quotes #Years Ago Quotes #Affair Quotes
“I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either you're a celebrity writer or a celebrity poet, or else you're nothing.”
-- Frederic Tuten

#Thinking Quotes #Culture Quotes #Problem Quotes
“When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.”
-- Frederic Tuten

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes
“Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.”
-- Frederic Tuten

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes
“If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.”
-- Frederic Tuten

#Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Animal Quotes
“Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.”
-- Frederic Tuten

#Way Quotes #Said Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

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