Quotes About Depth

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.

We should not judge our books by their covers, some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped

Three things are missing... ...Quality, texture of information... leisure

Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself...

do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life.

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all the story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.' Pope.

Este libro tiene poros, tiene rasgos. Este libro puede colocarse bajo el microscopio. A través de la lente, encontraría vida, huellas del pasado en infinita profusión. Cuantos más poros, más detalles provenientes de la vida misma haya en cada centímetro cuadrado de papel, más literaria será la obra.

La natura umana, temo, non è bellissima da cima a fondo.

Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town more populous than some continents and in its man-mad might as if indifferent to heaven's frowns and smiles; a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough there for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough there to bury five millions of lives.

that a work of art is very seldom limited to one exclusive meaning and not necessarily tending to a definite conclusion. And this for the reason that the nearer it approaches art, the more it acquires a symbolic character.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

Sanki baz? sessiz gecelerde uzaklarda çalan davullar?n çarp?nt?s?, yükselen ve alçalan, hem engin hem de belli belirsiz titreÅŸim duyulabiliyordu; garip, insana hitap eden, davetkar ve vahÅŸi bir sesti bu, ama sanki Hristiyan bir ülkedeki çan sesleri kadar derine iÅŸleyen bir anlama sahipti.

as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.

An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

All books have to be researched, but readable books have their research buried.

Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic

A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called "a fearful gift." The burden was a sadness and despair that could tip into a state of disease. But the gift was a capacity for depth, wisdom—even genius.

A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called "a fearful gift." The burden was a sadness and despair that could tip into a state of disease. But the gift was a capacity for depth, wisdom—even genius.   In

Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.

Don't go bigger, go deeper.

There is a field of talking blood that I have not been able to reach, not even with knives, not yet.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.