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“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
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“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
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“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”
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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
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“All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.”
Source : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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“It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.”
Source : Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.68, Hachette UK
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“I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!”
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“From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.”
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“Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.”
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“The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.”
Source : alice cary (1855). “poems”, p.336
