Quotes About Perspective

The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes to join him, another flies off the roof, four or five crash out of the crepe-myrtle hedge; from the pond one screams and from the barn I hear the dairyman denouncing another that has got into the cow-feed. My kin are given to such phrases as, 'Let's face it.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it.

I like his eyes, she observed, They don't look like they see what he's looking at but they keep on looking.

I told you you could hang around and work for food, she said, if you don't mind sleeping in that car yonder. Why listen, Lady, he said with a grin of delight, the monks of old slept in their coffins! They wasn't as advanced as we are, the old woman said.

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

He didn't have any use for history because he never expected to meet it again. To his mind, history was connected with processions and life with parades and he liked parades.

Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more." The

I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.

they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more?

I sure am sick of the Civil War.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ. Before he had thought it had been a doctor named Sladewall ....

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought that this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.

Anyone who has survived childhood, has enough material to write for the rest of her life.

Les hommes trouveront toujours que la chose la plus sérieuse de leur existence, c'est jouir.

When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?

should be clear by now that this making-right, or rectification, is not a process. It is already true, in Christ; but it is true eschatologically, from the perspective of the End. The now–not yet dynamic is operative here, as always.

Marilynne Robinson has written that "fear is not a Christian habit of mind.

I just need to remember even if I don't get the title, I have an awesome life and an awesome family and friends.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

I always had funny stories to tell, but my family members never laughed at them.