Quotes About Author

What you said the other day about the futility of running away was very profound; and very courageous. Listen, Henry, I believe you should talk with Jung. I

I retract what I said about [Louis-Ferdinand Céline's] Voyage au Bout de la Nuit. You will have to read it in June. There are affinities there with your earlier work. It's another form of absolute, and therefore valuable.

If you look at language merely as craft you are committing lèse-majesté towards your own sacred tools. You've got to have the proper respect—you've got to feel awed in its presence (see, I say "awed," not "sacred").

Miller is a far more distinguished mind than Céline.

The precondition, then, of the creative personality is not only acceptance, but its actual glorification of itself.

as I have the tragic sense of life these days

Have been reading Spengler exultantly. I never expected to experience such a sense of wonder, of vastness and richness.

The liberation of the instincts, of the inchoate etc. (except that with Lawrence it is restricted to the sexual problem and Dostoevsky was larger).

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

her 1935 memoir of life in Gilded Age New York, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, Bessie

What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he was making my own confession.

you must blackmail Julius. Come, come, don't make a fuss! Blackmail is a wholesome institution, necessary for the maintenance of morals.

The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were those who understood me least.

There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.

the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

I used writing to take language where women's pain was--and women's fear--and I kept excavating for the words that could bear the burden of speaking the unspeakable...

Feminists have good reasons for feeling tired. The backlash against feminism has been deeply stupid.

which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for the audience to accept.

The rhythm of editing, the length of a frame- these are not merely dictated by the professional need to establish a link with the audience (as they are thought to be). They express the character and the originality of the author of the film. At the present time cineastes use editing rhythm to gild the pill that has to be swallowed by the unfortunate audience. According to me, entirely in order to make money.

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

There is an intimacy about the place that makes it unique among America's racetracks.

An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction. Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.

A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs.-Albert Einstein