- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
- Dispassionate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a man who can run faster than I can.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
- Embody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
- Meaningless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020